Re: Change Useradd Behavior
Carlos,
If you set the default umask in /etc/login.defs , "useradd" will obey this
when creating home directories. Try setting "UMASK 077" in /etc/login.defs .
Alternately, you can user the higher level "adduser" tool, which has it's
own configuration setting for world-readable home directories
(dpkg-reconfigure -plow adduser).
Cheers,
Tyler
Carlos Mennens <carloswill@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
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