Philipp Kern <pk...@debian.org> writes: > On 25.07.22 08:46, Bjørn Mork wrote: >> Matt Barry <m...@hazelmollusk.org> writes: >>>> - why has a change been made >>> >>> I think this is explained in excruciating detail. The short version >>> (from NEWS): >>> >>> "mode 0700 provides both the most secure, unsurprising default" > [...] >> And the claim that this is "most unsurprising" (less surprising?) is >> obviously false. "No change" is always less surprising than any change, >> whatever the rationale is. > > It can also be unsurprising from an end-user's perspective. For > someone new to the system. So that line of argument does not really > hold.
True. Good point. I was reading this as "unsuprising to the reader (system operator)", but I see that it could mean "unsusprising to the system users". Which would make more sense. Is there a limit to the size of these entries which makes it hard to be more precise? Bjørn