User privacy

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Dienstag, den 16.02.2021, 14:18 +0000 schrieb 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?

future Ubuntu versions will exactly have such a setup, i think the
announcement of the feature also has instructions to apply the upcoming
settings on existing Ubuntu installs:

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/private-home-directories-for-ubuntu-21-04-onwards/19533


ciao
	oli
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