On 2017-06-29.15:43, gwmfms6@openmailbox.org wrote: > The wider community doesn't seem that concerned with the fact that all > Debian and Ubuntu users are now (with the most recent stable releases) > completely unable to change their default umask (and further have a default > setting that gives the world read access to all their documents). I think > this needs to be viewed as a security issue. Can you point to a real, specific security problem that this has caused? > Even with the premise that the average Linux user is more computer competent > than the average Windows or Mac user, I still don't think it's a fair > assumption that all linux users know all about umask and permissions. Due to > this, many users may unwittingly create "guest" accounts or friend accounts > on their computers unknowingly giving read access to all documents they've > created. If windows is different, it looks to be the outlier because macOS behaves the same way as Debian[0]: > For example, the default umask of 022 results in permissions of 644 > on new files and 755 on new folders. Groups and other users can read > the files and traverse the folders, but only the owner can make > changes. [0] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201684 -- Regards, Scott.
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