Hi, adduser maintainer here. Adduser currently has a single debconf question, "Do you want system-wide readable home directories?", resulting in the setting of DIR_MODE in adduser.conf.
Adduser is going to change its default in the future to 2700 due to a number of sensible bug reports requesting more account security. The only situation where the Debconf question still makes sense in these days is the Installer, since when the Installer creates the first user account, the user did not yet have the opportunity to edit adduser.conf. How does the Debian installer team think about adduser removing this debconf question in a future release, causing the account created on installation to be created with home directory mode 2700? adduser would become debconf-less that way, which would make the package a lot easier. Thanks for sharing your opinion. Please keep me on Cc for your replies, I am not subscribed to debian-boot. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 6224 1600421
