On Mon, 26 May 1997, Christian Hudon wrote: > On May 26, Pete Templin 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.
I assume you mean group-writable (corresponding with 750, 751, or 755). All I know is we had a problem with the Mac filesharing software on our DEC server here at BU a while ago, and we had to do some serious chmod'ing to reverse the mode 775 or worse .login files that many people had. As a result, we've got to be fairly explicit in our directions for "Create your own web page with 2 eggs, sugar..." Well, you know what I mean. :) Pete -- Peter J. Templin, Jr. Client Services Analyst Computer & Communication Services tel: (717) 524-1590 Bucknell University [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
