Pierre Fortin said:

> SIGH...   I recently noticed that all my users' home directories had 755
> permissions...  changed this to 700 and now it's back to 755...  What's
> the point of separate userids if msec allows each user to read another's
> directory??
>
> Will there be a more secure default in 9.1...?  If not, then I don't care
> to continue with msec on my systems:  rpm -e msec  &&  chmod 700 /home
>

msec works exactly as it should, and I doubt they will change the defaults
because of people not knowing how to use it.

Learn how to edit '/usr/share/msec/perm.x' or create a custom permission
file with drakperm.

Also, read this article: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/msec.php
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