root's home world readable

[eim <eim@eimbox.org>]

Hallo debian-sec folks,

While I was checking up some configurations,
I've noticed that the root's home directory /root
is world readable...

$ drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4.0k Jan 21 15:33 root

This seems to be Debian's default configuration,
because also on other Potato boxes I've found that
same configuration.

Well, as far as I can remember from the Slackware times,
root's home dir wasn't world readable by default.

Why has Debian choosen to let users access root's home ?

Let me say I "chmod 0700 /root", will I encounter any
problems through some anacrom jobs or anything else ?

I mean, when Debian set "0750 /root" there must be a reason, 
...isn't there ?

Thanks for any help,
Have a nice time and check out Lord of the Rings,
it really rocks :)

 - Ivo

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 Ivo Marino                    eim@eimbox.org
 UN*X Developer, running Debian GNU/Linux
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