Moritz Grimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This kind of paranoia adds nothing to security (~/.ssh and others that > need it are already set to restrictive permissions), and there is no > privacy from root no matter what. The rest is, again, personal > preference and/or something about local policies.
Ever heart of a multiuser system where one user shouldn't be able to acces the files of another user? Not all users are thinking about this issue and many forget to change the modes for confidential files. IMO, it's not paranoid, but useful. On a singleuser system, it might not matter, for example on your desktop. On my desktop, I don't have 700 either. But on my server, it's very important for me to have 700. -- Jonathan
