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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