On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 02:05:37PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > Last time I checked, home directories in /home are 755 by default and > this is not considered as a bug either. > > I think both cases are similar and we should treat them the same, that is, > if the consensus is that user home directories should be private by default, > we apply that principle to both /home/* and /root.
This is sensible reasoning, and I can only say that I disagree with one element: the "root" user isn't really a normal user (an observation backed up by the fact that their home directory isn't /home/root). Due to this, many admins want root to be more private by default. I agree that /home/* should be 755 to promote sharing, etc, but no one should be using root for anything but system administration duties. Whatever the case, I just wanted to be sure to provide this patch from Ubuntu, on the chance this seemed like a good default to Debian as well. :) Thanks! -Kees -- Kees Cook @debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
