On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 12:58:48PM +0200, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > "Jürgen A. Erhard" <juergen.erhard@gmx.net> writes: > > > The default homedir perms are ok the way they are. Everyone (on the > > system) can read everything is good old UNIX tradition. > > Then maybe you have to think over good old traditions *nowadays*, with > masses of UNIX (and generally computer) unaware people working in > Linux. Times have changed, and now there are environments where > relatively simple protection solutions are of great benefit for users > which otherwise could do harm by simply mistakenly doing something. perhaps this should be an option in /etc/adduser.conf HOMEDIRMODE=0755 that way one need not make a adduser.local for this change. what the default is in adduser.conf is a whole nother flamewar i will ignore. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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