Setting a umask

[Adam Conrad]

Serg B. wrote:
> 
> How can make it so a default home directory permission (when account is
> created) is set to something like 0700  without the need to change it
> manually? What file do I need to edit etc?

/etc/adduser.conf ... See the DIR_MODE setting.

Alternately, use "sudo dpkg-reconfigure adduser" and say "no" to
world-readable homes.  This will set the DIR_MODE to 751, which is
probably what you want, not 700.

7 for the user.  Self explanatory, I suspect.

5 for the user's primary group (which is usually a private group with no
one in it BUT the user, so you can specifically say "I want joe to be
able to read bill's files" with "adduser joe bill")

1 for world (not 0), since you want traversal (but not read) rights
granted to the world so, for instance, the www-data user can traverse
/home/joe to get to /home/joe/public_html/

... Adam