Timothy Donahue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> This is fairly easy to customize since the adduser command is just a
> perl  script.  (Hint: I believe that line 1143 in 3.7 might be a good
> place to  start looking.)  

I know, just wanted to say that changing it is not stupid. ;)

Moritz Grimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> But keeping confidential files on "true" multiuser systems is
> stupid ...
> IMNSHO. And you cannot hide anything from the administrator. You
> depend on how well the admin is capable of securing the rest of the
> system and not have it rooted by a 3rd party(*) including the other
> users. 

But if you can depend on root, then it's useful. I don't mean top secret
files, I mean private files noone else should read, like mail or
letters for example.

All in all, I just wanted to say that it's not stupid to secure the
homes, not more but also not less.

-- 
Jonathan

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