On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 10:28:47PM +0000, Andrew Beresford wrote: > umask can do this. Any sysadmin running a multiuser system who doesn't > know how to use umask has far worse problems than leaving files open to > read. > > 755 seems like a fairly reasonable default to me. (is that what's it's > set to? I haven't checked!) 755 has been the classic default. By request of many people, a config question has been added to prevent world read of user's files by default, I believe the home directories are created with permissions 751 in that case. Since the default on a Debian system is to give each user their own group, this is reasonable. I personally know of little harm execute permission can do on a directory without read permission. I don't fancy people playing around in my ~ either, but ~knghtbrd/src and ~knghtbrd/public_html are fair game for local users. -- Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@bluecherry.net> My opinions are always right <Culus-> libc6 is not essential :|
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