On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Roger Leigh <rle...@codelibre.net> wrote: > In general, I think it's fair to say that the average Debian > installation does not require Fort Knox levels of security. Simply > allowing other people to read our files is often something desirable;
Does other refer to other users, all other accounts or the entire world? > if I have something especially secret, I'll take steps to make sure > it's not readable or writeable by anyone except me. But in general, > it's not a bad thing that others can see my stuff. I can always keep > private things in a 0700 subdirectory. You can, but you can easily forget that. Note that defaulting to private does not prevent you from changing the permissions. > I can see that in some circumstances you might well want total control > over who can see your files, but unless you're dealing with TOP SECRET > stuff, I am not convinced that this is something the typical user would > wish to have by default. Are there any common use cases which require > this? Like backups, the need for security is often discovered after it was necessary. -- Olaf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTim_txyuh+zvXyOXHzWTPf8QypYZHj=s+b4ko...@mail.gmail.com
