User privacy

[Ian Bruntlett]

Hi,

I'm sorting out an existing Lubuntu 18.04 laptop for a mother and daughter.
At the moment when I run umask I get the result "0002" which I believe
means that different users can read each other's files in their $HOME
directories. They want to stop each other from reading their files.

Now I have a rough idea on how to arrange this. I believe a different umask
value has to be specified however I don't know:-
* What value of umask to use
* Where to set that value so that it is set as the default on bootup/login.

Can anyone help?

Thank you for your patience.


Ian

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