Change edubuntu's default permissions?

[Frank Van Damme]

2013/5/28  <theo.schmidt at wilhelmtux.ch>:
> AFAIK this is the standard setup for most Linux distributions. Users can
> however not write or delete outside their own accounts.


"human knowledge belongs to the world" ;-)

If there should be exceptions to this rule, in addition to the default
permission on home directories for new users, there is amsl umask,
which determines the permissions new files are created with. This can
be set system wide in /etc/login.defs.

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