Hi Marc, Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de> (2022-03-22): > adduser maintainer here. Adduser currently has a single debconf > question, "Do you want system-wide readable home directories?", > resulting in the setting of DIR_MODE in adduser.conf. > > Adduser is going to change its default in the future to 2700 due to a > number of sensible bug reports requesting more account security. The > only situation where the Debconf question still makes sense in these > days is the Installer, since when the Installer creates the first user > account, the user did not yet have the opportunity to edit adduser.conf. > > How does the Debian installer team think about adduser removing this > debconf question in a future release, causing the account created on > installation to be created with home directory mode 2700? > > adduser would become debconf-less that way, which would make the package > a lot easier. At first glance, letting d-i use whatever the default is would look good to me. People having strong opinions about this setting can always adjust the configuration after the installation? > Please keep me on Cc for your replies, I am not subscribed to > debian-boot. Done. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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