Feature changed by: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) Feature #306645, revision 4 Title: Secure home directory permissions by default openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) Description: Also see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=518550 . The default for home directories is 0755 (umask 022 in login.defs), and here's the fate entry to change it to 0711 (umask 066). Discussion: #1: Karl Eichwalder (keichwa) (2009-07-04 06:55:24) GNU/Linux is still Un*x and it is about cooperation. Besides this, avery default is arguable as Thorsten pointed out in the referenced bug entry. It ain't use changing it. On sensible systems, better encrypt home directories. Maybe, we should consider improving help texts and documentation if all this is not obvious to the user. + #2: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) (2009-07-04 18:01:50) (reply to #1) + What on earth does home directory encryption bring you if the volume is + mounted anyway. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306645