On Sun, Jul 14, 2024 at 19:09:54 +0200, Hans wrote: > I am wondering, why on a multiuser system like debian the rights for a normal > user are "rw- r-- r--", (owner: user and ownergroup: usergroup)
Tradition, and a culture based around sharing. The Unix culture of openness and freedom (specifically the freedom to distribute your work to others) works best if you can say "Hey Betty, can you take a look at my .bashrc? I can't get my foo() function to work." Or "Hey friends, I've made some changes to my bar.c file that you might want to look at." And then they can just read the files directly from your home directory. If you don't like this setting, change it.
