Default permissions

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Martin Ericsson wrote:
> George Farris wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 23:11 +0200, Martin Ericsson wrote:
>>  
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>>> Colin Watson wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>>> Rather than making it actively difficult for users on the same system
>>>> (who, as I explained, will often be associated with each other and have
>>>> useful information to share with each other) to share files, I'd much
>>>> rather see increased UI prominence for permissions on files, so that
>>>> it's obvious when a file is world-readable and obvious how to hide its
>>>> contents.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>
>>> Isn't a part of the problem that there is no an easy way to share
>>> files between the different users on a ubuntu  system?
>>>
>>> As you stated, on many systems the different users corresponds to
>>> various family members. Yet if you want to share your music with
>>> everybody in the family you you have to point them to your home
>>> directory  or create a common directory with o:rw and make sure that
>>> all users belong to the same  group?
>>>
>>> So I think ubuntu should make sharing easier.  Just as every file
>>> dialog has a home-icon, it should also have a pointer to a shared
>>> directory.
>>>
>>> Martin Ericsson
>>>
>>>
>>>   
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>> Having /home permissions be other than 0700 is a no no IMHO.  It always
>> has been on UNIX systems.  Privacy should be number one on the list with
>> the ability to loosen it up.  If GDM is requiring this, it's wrong.
>> Users should have the option of having their home directory be locked
>> down, without loosing functionality such as GDM.  If I misunderstood
>> this please ignore.
>>
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>>
>>  
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> 
> You misunderstood, so maybe I didn't make my point very clearly.
> 
> What I mean is that ubuntu should set up  a shared directory that all
> (human) users can access. The permissions for that directory should be
> set to 770.
> 

I use /home/shared with 01777 (same as /tmp)

I said this in another post :)

> If that sound unsafe you could have an option, "Allow access to shared
> directory" in users-admin->users permissions that adds them to the
> "shared files" group.
> 
> That way  you don't have set lose permissions (755) for your home
> directory just because you might want to share some of your files with
> your wife.  You just place those files in the shared-directory instead.
> 
> Martin Ericsson
> 
> 
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