Thanks, Attila, I followed your advice and wrote the feature request.

Attila wrote:
> On Montag, 17. September 2007 11:03 Oleg Nitz wrote:
> 
>> The "shadow" package provides the following defaults:
>> "useradd -m" created home directory with 755 permissions
>> "adduser" created home directory with 711 permissions
>> I believe that home directories must be created with 700 permissions.
>> To achieve this I've changed UMASK from 022 to 077 in /etc/login.defs
>> and changed defchmod from 711 to 700 in /usr/sbin/adduser.
> 
> Nice Idea. I never recognize this because i have my user in a own group and
> choose 770 for my homes. Thanks for the hint.
> 
>> I propose to make these changes in the "shadow" package. But before
>> adding this feature request to http://bugs.archlinux.org/ I would like
>> to hear your opinions, maybe there is some good reason for having
>> current defaults?
> 
> I don't see any reason against it too but i'm not a dev. From my view you can
> write a feature request because than the devs have it easier to recognize
> this and there is even the possibility to discuss it.
> 
> See you, Attila
> 
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