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Re: home directory permissions



Gary Hennigan wrote:
> 
> "Charlie Grosvenor" <charlie@thegrosvenors.fsnet.co.uk> writes:
> >     I have just used the command adduser to add some users to my system. I
> > have noticed that each user added has read rights to other users home
> > directory. Why is this? how can i stop adduser from creating home
> > directories with these permissions?

Actually, I think you just change the permissions in the file
/etc/skel.  I'm not sure though, so let us all know if that works. 
There may be a umask thing you'll want to change too.
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