On 07/08/2014 09:09 AM, Anton Aylward wrote:
A lot of organizations using Linux or Unix would come to a screeching halt if the default permissions for home directories were drwx------.
Please explain why. Please explain what business decisions lead to and justify that and why
On 07/07/2014 04:00 PM, Dirk Gently wrote: they exclude other approaches.
I ask this because I have run both development and operational sites where the user's individual home directories were so protected.
If your justification is the need to share, then there are other, cleaner, better managed ways to do it, such as setting up project directories or using web based interfaces.
I agree. I have used other distros where the home directory group is the owner, not users. I also fail to understand why a home directory has to be readable by everyone, unless the owner wants to make it so. I don't have a problem of shared directories available to specific groups, including users. While it has been a while, I have set up systems at work where a users directory is available only to them and root, with appropriately shared group directories for specific groups. However, on my own systems, where I'm the only user, it doesn't make much difference. Regardless I would prefer a bit more privacy for home directories. As it is, a user has to know how to restrict permissions, otherwise any directory they create will be 755, allowing anyone to read the contents. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org