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Re: Default Homedir Permissions



* Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@gmail.com> [2011-02-17 13:56]:

> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Martin Wuertele <maxx@debian.org> wrote:
> > IIRC you are asked during installation if you want world readable home
> > directories or not.
> 
> No you're not. Unless (I assume) you do an expert install. Even then,
> non-world-readble means 751, not 750. The default should still change.

You are right about the expert install (I can't remember when I last did
a non-expert install).

751 togeather with a default umask of 027 would work, however several
programs don't work flawless with non 022 or 002 umaks (eg #531885).

Kind regards,
Martin

p.s. no need to CC me as I'm subscribed


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