Re: Bug#782001: general: access granted to /home files of another user
On Mon, Apr 06, 2015 at 12:46:30PM +0200, Björn wrote:
> * 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 outcome did you expect instead?
> That a user's files are only accessible with the respective password and not
> the password of another user.
This is not an error, works as designed. You can "dpkg-reconfigure adduser"
to change this behaviour for newly added users (ie, not the first one),
existing users' homes need manual chmodding.
I do agree that this design seems bad, though.
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