Re: umask - default user settings?
Hi Greg,
yes, did already change it. However, this looks like a security hole for me,
as I believe, not many people or admins are changing this.
IMO debian should change this in the next release, but I doubt it.
I will ask the security team for it, they will decide.
Have fun!
Hans
Am Sonntag, 14. Juli 2024, 19:18:07 CEST schrieb Greg Wooledge:
> On Sun, Jul 14, 2024 at 19:09:54 +0200, Hans wrote:
> > I am wondering, why on a multiuser system like debian the rights for a
> > normal user are "rw- r-- r--", (owner: user and ownergroup: usergroup)
>
> Tradition, and a culture based around sharing.
>
> The Unix culture of openness and freedom (specifically the freedom to
> distribute your work to others) works best if you can say "Hey Betty,
> can you take a look at my .bashrc? I can't get my foo() function to
> work." Or "Hey friends, I've made some changes to my bar.c file that
> you might want to look at." And then they can just read the files
> directly from your home directory.
>
> If you don't like this setting, change it.
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