Re: Home Directory Privacy

2010-08-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Carlos Mennens wrote: >I don't understand why Debian defaults home directory permissions to >755 where most every other major distribution does 700. >why does Debian default to this >method? > >Thanks for any info in understanding why developers elect this process >as Debian's default action.

Home Directory Privacy

2010-08-09 Thread Carlos Mennens
I don't understand why Debian defaults home directory permissions to 755 where most every other major distribution does 700. I find it unusual that I have to 'chmod -R 700' a newly created users /home directory. I know I can modify /etc/adduser.conf or /etc/default/useradd.conf files to change the