[Bug 48734] Re: Home permissions too open

[Chris Rainey]

It has been my experience, lately, that individuals or families sharing
a computer have a single login account, i.e. "Family", etc.. This is
probably due to the perception by such simple-needs $USER's or their
family I.T. guru, that--it is the easiest way to overcome the reasonable
and appropriate account isolation techniques, by default, in Windows or
macOS. I suggest that the same could be true for Ubuntu and it would
hardly be noticed, except by experienced *nix $USERS, most of whom--
would already know how to twiddle the appropriate bits, if needed, to
open their $HOMES.

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Title:
  Home permissions too open

Status in adduser package in Ubuntu:
  Opinion
Status in Ubuntu RTM:
  New

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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