For the home dirs try this: dpkg-reconfigure adduser. Then choose 'no'. I think that should do the trick. I am on my Android right now so I can't check it for you.
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Met vriendelijke groet,
Kees de Jong
Hi ppl.,
1/ I'm wondering why most of the system users have valid shells by default ?
cat /etc/passwd | grep -E '(sh|bash)' | wc -l
21
2/ Why, by default, new users' home directories have 755 ?
Every time I create a new account, I have to change it to 700.
Why it's like this ? any special reasons ?
These are what I've checked on my Squeeze boxes.
Rgrds,
Davit