Whoa...Robbie, I'm just looking out for all the new user's and admin's
that are coming in from other platforms that could reasonably be
surprised by this and not Unix/Linux veteran's who broke their teeth
with vi on Slackware, etc..
Believe it or not, with WSL-2 and other notable advancements of Ubuntu
coming on to the radar of mainstream and mostly Microsoft-trained
admin's, we have an _opportunity_ here to create mindshare and loyalty
for migrations of huge workloads to our platform-of-choice and,
arguably, the best platform for safer and more secure computing as
opposed to having the majority of PC users in the world stay on one
company's monoculture-vision of desktop computing.
I'm attempting to spread the Gospel-of-GNU(Ubuntu) everywhere. We're on
the same team, my friend.
Obscure wiki articles and 13-year old "opinion"-marked bugs will _not_
be the first place new admins or users will find out about this issue!
Heck, I've been a Linux user since 2004("Red Hat 8"(before Fedora was
even a thing) box-set purchased at a CompUSA store), then Slackware and
an Ubuntu convert since 2012 or so. I should know better than to leave
multi-user seats unaudited for permissions after creation(or even during
by not having edited the adduser.conf file). But even I just _assumed_
that a modern desktop would surely put security ahead of convenience! I
didn't even know that this "security" issue was a "feature" till I
started setting-up multi-user local seats and even then--I may have just
started using ecryptfs as a workaround. Now--even that option is gone
from user(admin)-facing installer widgets.
Put yourself in the shoes of a new or migrating small to medium sized
business CIO or IT-manager looking to convert from the soon-to-be out-
of-service "Windows 7" in order to keep fleets of older boxes running
for daily knowledge-worker or office-productivity users who share
desktop PC's over the course of 24/7 shifts at the office. What would
you think if every system that you had installed or understood to be the
out-of-box defaults for the past few decades was based on blocking vs
allowing? And you took the risk of allowing this "Linux-
thing"(yes...this is what I have heard it called many times) only to
discover the opposite, a permissive rule set, without any warning.
Ubuntu is growing rapidly...I want to see it succeed despite it's geeks-
only reputation. I think sensible defaults are good to always be working
on(not just "opining" about in 13-year old bugs).
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