In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Carey Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've removed group write permissions from my home dir because of the > programs like qmail and ssh which don't like it. I don't think > anything would break because of removing these permissions, so maybe > adduser should make home directories mode 755 (or 750)? 755 sounds OK. Not 750 by default; people who are that paranoid can set it themselves (perhaps an option for adduser if there isn't one already?), and it does cause problems with various things. 751 is a little better - at least web servers work, and you can have .plan and .project files.