First, I was quite surprised to see a response from you yourself, Mark, and
appreciate your direct involvement. Second, while Olli's response was
rather incensed, it is representative of many people's reactions when they
discover this feature. I'm sure there are very good reasons this choice
persists, but it helps people to know what they are. If you could briefly
elaborate on the "facts or circumstances or arguments" that have lead to
this decision people would no longer feel they are
being unreasonably ignored, and thereby reduce the need for electronic
voice-raising.
On a final note, it's worth noting that this does qualify as a "security
bug" by the definition on the wiki:
"accessing information that should be blocked. For example, a user on the
system being able to view or modify private files of another user. ("Loss of
Privacy")"
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Mark Shuttleworth <m...@canonical.com>
wrote:
>
> Olli, I appreciate that you would like the matter to be handled
> differently, but a decision has been taken. Every decision can be
> changed, but it will only be changed if the facts or circumstances or
> arguments changed. Showing up, talking loudly, but adding nothing other
> than a strong statement of your preferences is not going to change it.
>
> Mark
>
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> Home permissions too open
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/48734
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> Status in “adduser” package in Ubuntu: Invalid
>
> 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.
>
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