On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 01:20:31PM -0500, Tony Yarusso wrote: > I've always been a little bit uncomfortable with the choice of default > permissions for user home directories, and would like to see some more > discussion around that.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/FAQ#Permissive%20Home%20Directory%20Permissions > (Past answers essentially being "it's easier > this way", for file sharing and the like, which doesn't seem > particularly convincing to me.) It is certainly a very specific trade-off that was chosen early in Ubuntu design. But that's why /etc/adduser.conf exists. :) -- Kees Cook Ubuntu Security Team -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
