Default permissions

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.
> 
Hogwash, I would say.  Login to any University UNIX machine and you will
not find 755 permissions on /home/*.  I would bet this holds true for
most businesses as well.  At any rate security should be upper most in
our minds with the ability to loosen it up as needs dictate.