Default permissions

Ivan Krstic schrieb am 21.10.2005 14:23:

> Christoph Bier wrote:
> 
>>Ivan Krstic schrieb am 21.10.2005 13:18:
>>
>>>Programs that deal with private data (e.g. mail) are usually good about
>>>using proper permissions. On a desktop system, other people who have
>>>accounts are usually trusted individuals, [...]
>>
>>Sure?? I really don't think so! No.
> 
> I carefully qualified that sentence with 'usually'. It's possible that

Yes, and I don't think this is usual.

> you hand out accounts on your desktop to whoever wants one, but it's
> certainly not common behavior,

I know lots of people, that share their desktop with other
colleagues. I'm not talking about my desktop at home.

> nor one deserving of a change in Ubuntu's
> defaults.

That's why I wrote "Just my 2 cents". I can't evaluate whether this
is worth a change in Ubuntu's defaults. chown -R did the job for me
so far. I just wanted to question your "usually" :-).

> Colin's idea of a /home/$USER/private sounds optimal, though I suspect

ACK

> the entire data security question will have to be revisited as soon as
> we begin talking about folder and drive encryption

Good idea.

> -- which Martin
> already discussed on the list some time ago, but the technologies
> discussed weren't a good fit for Ubuntu at the time.

Regards,
    Christoph
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