James, On Wednesday 24 August 2005 10:44, James Knott wrote:
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If you want to share files with the group, create a directory for that group and every member of that group has access to that shared directory. A user shouldn't have to take action, to keep others out of his home directory.
The validity of that claim rests solely on the assumptions you make about the relationships between the users of the system in question.
As an experiment, create another user on your system and create a text document in the home directory for that user. Then, log in as yourself and try reading that file. Then log in as that other user and try accessing files in your home directory. Tell me again about the security of that setup.
That so-called "experiment" is not controlled and will tell the person who conducts it only about the incidental aspects of their local configuration, not about anything universal to the use of groups and umask. Randall Schulz