Re: Default valid shells and home dir permissions
On 01/12/12 04:19, Poison Bit wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Davit Avsharyan <avsharyan@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
The commit log(2000) is: Load adduser-3.12 into trunk.
No idea where upstream came from. The source packages are all native,
regardless of the comment that there is an upstream. Perhaps this is
just an artifact from the last time the RCS was updated.
http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/debian/dists/Debian-2.2/main/source/base/adduser_3.11.1.tar.gz
http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/debian/dists/Debian-3.0/main/source/Sources-bigfile
Package: adduser
Binary: adduser
Version: 3.47
Priority: important
Section: base
Maintainer: Roland Bauerschmidt <rb@debian.org>
Build-Depends-Indep: gettext
Architecture: all
Standards-Version: 3.5.5.0
Format: 1.0
Directory: pool/main/a/adduser
Files:
a4066d4d1721777afb35ac06ae0b5efa 528 adduser_3.47.dsc
2e660d4e4bd3126dbab8b8f11d05a746 64446 adduser_3.47.tar.gz
> No less than 9 years.
>
> In 2003 I see the 755:
>
> http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/adduser/trunk/adduser.conf?revision=10&view=markup
>
> Can't find earlier references there, but in
> /usr/share/doc/adduser/changelog.gz there is the following entry:
>
> * ability to set a global mode for creating directories in variable
> DIR_MODE in adduser.conf (closes: #29389)
>
> With this date: Sat, 20 May 2000 14:16:20 +0200
>
> One possible reason for this default, maybe if I'm not mistaken, to
> keep UserDir working in apache (?)
>
> --
> Iñigo
>
>
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