Re: Debian 2.2 and security - SecurityPortal article]

[Joachim Trinkwitz <jtr@uni-bonn.de>]

"Jürgen A. Erhard" <juergen.erhard@gmx.net> writes:

> The default homedir perms are ok the way they are.  Everyone (on the
> system) can read everything is good old UNIX tradition.

Then maybe you have to think over good old traditions *nowadays*, with
masses of UNIX (and generally computer) unaware people working in
Linux. Times have changed, and now there are environments where
relatively simple protection solutions are of great benefit for users
which otherwise could do harm by simply mistakenly doing something.

Greetings,
joachim