If I invite you into my house(physical), then I don't expect you to go through my filing cabinets or closets, when I'm not looking, without explicitly giving you those "permissions(0755)".
"Good fences make good neighbours" and "Locks keep out only the honest" are equally true. Placing convenience-over-privacy, by default, in this post-GDPR / Facebook & Twitter leaks / Equifax breach / Edward Snowden & Julian Assange(perhaps heroes to those of us in the USA), etc. seems to be unconscionable. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to adduser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/48734 Title: Home permissions too open Status in adduser package in Ubuntu: Opinion Status in Ubuntu RTM: New Bug description: Binary package hint: debian-installer On a fresh dapper install i noticed that the file permissons for the home directory for the user created by the installer is set to 755, giving read access to everyone on the system. Surely this is a bad idea? If your set on the idea can we atleast have a option during the boot proccess? Also new files that are created via the console ('touch' etc.) are done so with '644' permissons, is there anything that can be done here? nautlius seems to create files at '600', which is a better setting. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/adduser/+bug/48734/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
