Default permissions

On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 01:03:41PM +0200, John Nilsson wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 10:00 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 02:35:54PM -0700, George Farris wrote:
> > > Having /home permissions be other than 0700 is a no no IMHO.  It always
> > > has been on UNIX systems.
> > 
> > No, it really hasn't! The ability for users to conveniently share files
> > has always come first in Unix.
> 
> Even so, the implications of having to explicitly allow access to stuff
> you want to share is far less than the implications of unknowingly
> sharing stuff you thought was safe...

I think one of Colin's points, which has been completely missed, was
that when you're talking about changing thirty years or whatever of
UNIX tradition, the onus is on you to explain why it should be changed,
instead of having to justify why it should remain.
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