On 2017-06-30 12:05, Holger Levsen wrote:
On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 11:56:37AM -0400, gwmf...@openmailbox.org
wrote:
Ultimately, it wouldn't be as big a deal if it was possible to change
the
default umask for the gnome-session in Debian Stretch.
the fact that it's impossible for you, doesnt
On 2017-06-30 09:17, Russell Stuart wrote:
gwmf...@openmailbox.org is right in saying today's computer users don't
have the "sharing is what makes us bigger than the sum of the parts"
philosophy. Where he goes wrong is in assuming they share their
computers. While there was a time many people
On 2017-06-30 00:18, darkestkhan wrote:
Are you saying that default permissions for home dirs in Debian is 755?
It was when I installed Jessie and most recently Stretch.
sc...@sl.id.au wrote:
Can you point to a real, specific security problem that this has
caused?
I already did, in my
The wider community doesn't seem that concerned with the fact that all
Debian and Ubuntu users are now (with the most recent stable releases)
completely unable to change their default umask (and further have a
default setting that gives the world read access to all their
documents). I think
to the user what they are doing
(ie, they are giving the world access to those particular files).
On 2017-06-28 07:25, Ian Jackson wrote:
Paul Wise writes ("Re: Subject: UMASK 002 or 022?"):
On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 1:11 AM, gwmfms6 wrote:
> This discussion should be on w
Paul, you seemed to indicate that you were able to set a different "user
default" umask in Stretch that's respected by gnome apps like gedit? How
did you do it?
On 2017-06-28 09:21, Paul Wise wrote:
On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 7:25 PM, Ian Jackson wrote:
The appropriate default umask is 002 if
You didn't notice because you run umask from your shell configuration?
In other words, you have a working umask in Stretch?
I want a working umask in stretch. Can you tell me how to "run `umask
027` from my shell configuration"? Currently, I have not found a way to
get gnome to respect umask
Setting umask in ~/.profile on Jessie works for me.
On 2017-06-28 01:04, Arto Jantunen wrote:
It doesn't work since pam_umask isn't run by default. However as far as
I know this has been the case for a very long time (the oldest install
I
can check quickly is squeeze and it has the same
I'd like to know why giving the world (Other) read access is even under
consideration. If user wants a file to have Other readability this
should be on the user to set it, but it should not be the default.
What is the justification that every user be able to read every other
user's documents?
I'd like to know why giving the world (Other) read access is even under
consideration. If user wants a file to have Other readability this
should be on the user to set it, but it should not be the default.
What is the justification that every user be able to read everyone
else's documents?
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