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Bug#848142: default permissions on new HOMES (0755 -> 075[0|1])



On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 12:33:01PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
> control: severity -1 wishlist
> 
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 04:57:29PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> > I grew up in a community where sharing was the norm and non-sharing was
> > explicit.  We used ~/pub/ for files intended for others and ~/priv/ for
> > files ment to be private.  The files in ~/ (normally configuration etc)
> > was accessable to others by default, so we could learn from each other
> > with little friction.  So to me it is natural for home directories to
> > have 0755.  I wish the kids of today would grow up in such community
> > too.
> 
> :-)
>  
> > > I'd suggest to change the default homedir permission for Debian Edu 9  
> > > from 0755 to 0750 (or 0751 and use a proper umask on the home mount  
> > > point).
> > > Furthermore, we could add a public_html folder and make that one  
> > > accessible by all. Plus the Public Folder.
> > What do you mean here?  How would this work with 0750?
> 
> besides this very valid question, I'm also not sure we should derive
> from the Debian default here.
> 
> IMO it's best to keep the default and to document in the manual how to
> change it,
> https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Stretch/HowTo/Administration
> seems like a good place for that.

The manual covers this issue already in the architecture chapter, iirc.

Wolfgang

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