Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes:

> Hi Alex,
>
> Alex Griffin <a...@ajgrf.com> skribis:
>
>> After a default install of GuixSD, anybody can read root's home
>> directory. I think /root should have permissions 700 instead of 755.
>
> Fixed in 41db5a756369f5b14d1e67a523ee0940cad56744.
>
> For the other user accounts, useradd(8) does its thing, and apparently
> it defaults to world-readable accounts (it defaults to a umask of 022 as
> written in the man page).
>
> Thoughts?

I'm in favor of overriding that default. I usually chmod /home/* to 0700
anyway. 0750 would be okay too and probably covers more use cases.

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