On Mon, 28 Nov 2022 15:50:56 +0000, Benjamin Drung <bdr...@debian.org> wrote: >On Tue, 2022-07-19 at 08:49 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> We implemented that change last week, and promptly a bug report >> (#1014901) appeared, giving what we consider good arguments to change >> this back to 0700. Here is what the adduser team considers possible >> documentation for this, and we itend to include this in NEWS.Debian as a >> rationale for the change. >> >> [...] >> >> As mode 0700 provides both the most secure, unsurprising default, and is >> in line with most other major distributions, the adduser team considers >> the matter to be settled; any further discussion should come prepared >> with rationale, support, convincing use cases and a significant public >> discussion period. > >Ubuntu changed the default DIR_MODE to 0750 in January 2021 [1] with the >same intention than Debian now. I like to see Debian and Ubuntu agree on >one default DIR_MODE to keep the package difference small and make >documentation shareable.
See NEWS.Debian for adduser 3.123 and the "default for DIR_MODE" chapter in https://salsa.debian.org/debian/adduser/-/blob/master/debian/README ¹. I am tired of this discussion and will not change this decision until overridden by the ctte. Greetings Marc ¹ the next upload will have this README actually installed to the package, I apologize for this bug -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834