Re: adduser default for sgid home directories

[Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>]

Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org> writes:
> On 25.07.22 08:46, Bjørn Mork wrote:
>> Matt Barry <matt@hazelmollusk.org> writes:
>>>> - why has a change been made
>>>
>>> I think this is explained in excruciating detail.  The short version
>>> (from NEWS):
>>>
>>> "mode 0700 provides both the most secure, unsurprising default"
> [...]
>> And the claim that this is "most unsurprising" (less surprising?) is
>> obviously false. "No change" is always less surprising than any change,
>> whatever the rationale is.
>
> It can also be unsurprising from an end-user's perspective. For
> someone new to the system. So that line of argument does not really
> hold.

True.  Good point.

I was reading this as "unsuprising to the reader (system operator)", but
I see that it could mean "unsusprising to the system users".  Which
would make more sense.

Is there a limit to the size of these entries which makes it hard to be
more precise?



Bjørn