Bug#782001: general: access granted to /home files of another user
Package: general
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
* What led up to the situation?
Created new user from a non-root account (using root password prompt within
non-root account).
Started that new user.
Tried to read files from /home of first user.
Succeeded.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
See above.
* What was the outcome of this action?
See above.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
That a user's files are only accessible with the respective password and not
the password of another user.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
APT prefers testing-updates
APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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