Fabio, thank you. I am familiar with the behaviour of Ubuntu and other
Linux distributions, though I must admit that I am unfamiliar with the
behaviour of Windows and therefore the comparison to Windows XP is lost
on me.

Fabio, it is not expected that the user will have any access to /home
/other-user, which is where other users keep their files which should
not be seen by other users. It is expected and standard practice that
the user has read access to the rest of the file system (exceptions to
/root and sbin, of course). Please stop sweeping this issue under the
rug as if it is security related, it is not. It is a bug, an oversight,
and it deviates from standard practice. In fact, on some installs the
user _can_ access the partitions in question (they appear in fstab) yet
on some installs this is not the case. The fact that this is an
intermittent issue further bolsters the case that having access is
intended behaviour.

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