RE: Change Useradd Behavior
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carlos Mennens [mailto:carloswill@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 17 March, 2010 09:36
> To: Debian
> Subject: Change Useradd Behavior
>
> I would like to know if it's possible when creating a new user with
> the '/usr/sbin/useradd' script to set the users home directory
> permissions to 700 rather than the Debian default of 755? I don't
> understand why Debian does this not do I really care to debate it but
> I don't like users being able to browse each others directories and
> would like it to be '700' like it is in most other distributions. Is
> it possible to modify this without doing something drastic?
>
> I checked /etc/default/useradd but couldn't find anything there for
> default home permissions.
>
/etc/adduser.conf:
# If DIR_MODE is set, directories will be created with the specified
# mode. Otherwise the default mode 0755 will be used.
DIR_MODE=0755
James
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