Bug#643559: adduser with personal groups should make home directory g+s

severity #643559 wishlist thanks On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 03:27:44PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: So in the default (personal groups) configuration, home directories should be g+s. This can be locally configured via the DIR_MODE setting in adduser.conf. I don't think it would be a good idea to

Bug#643559: adduser with personal groups should make home directory g+s

Thanks for your reply. Marc Haber writes (Re: Bug#643559: adduser with personal groups should make home directory g+s): This can be locally configured via the DIR_MODE setting in adduser.conf. I don't think it would be a good idea to change the default. May I ask why not ? I thought I had

Bug#643559: adduser with personal groups should make home directory g+s

I wrote: May I ask why not ? I thought I had provided a clear enough explanation of the reasoning, and the change is otherwise harmless, but I'd be happy to go into it further. Looking into this further, I found this in adduser.conf: # If SETGID_HOME is yes home directories for users with

Bug#643559: adduser with personal groups should make home directory g+s

Package: adduser Version: 3.112+nmu2 Personal groups are the default on Debian. The purpose of personal groups is to allow users to run with a umask of 002 so that they can sensibly access shared filespace areas whose access is controlled by group. This only works if the shared filespace areas