I disagree. Security and convenience usually do not go together; a default umask of 022 is a nice middle-term: by default you can see other user's directories and files, but you cannot *change* them.
On my laptop this is a perfectly acceptable umask. On my servers I usually force a default umask of 077 -- meaning that by *default* only the creator/owner has *any* access to files created by him/her. As *you* want more lockdown, others would rather have less. BTW, 'umask' is set for the session (terminal, login), not for a particular directory. -- Default umask is 022 for ALL users, even when not wanted https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/481825 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
