Re: Default valid shells and home dir permissions

[Davit Avsharyan <avsharyan@gmail.com>]

I know how to change it :). I just wanted to understand why it comes 
with 755 and not 700 ?
Few years ago, if I'm not mistaken, everything was 700.

TRJ

On 12/01/12 4:49 AM, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:37 AM, Kees de Jong<keesdejong@gmail.com>  wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > --
> > Met vriendelijke groet,
> > Kees de Jong
> >
> > On Jan 11, 2012 10:09 AM, "Davit Avsharyan"<avsharyan@gmail.com>  wrote:
> > > 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
> Change the dir_mode in /etc/adduser.conf