On May 26, Pete Templin wrote > > On 26 May 1997, Carey Evans wrote: > > > 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)? > > Let's be careful with 750...many webservers run equivalent to nobody. > Setting user home directories will mean additional user training (a.k.a. > more questions for the sysadmin...) when users are creating webpages.
How about 751, then? The web servers will still run fine. I don't think home directories should be created world-writable by default, though. Even though it's "not a problem" with the one user, one group scheme. Christian
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