On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 11:23:36AM -0700, Dave Carrigan wrote: | D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > Home dirs should have "711" as the permissions (owner | > read-write-execute group and world execute only). I just checked on | > my system (I am really the only user right now) and the perms are 755 | > (actually I'm not sure what the 's' in the 010 column is (group | > execute)). | | The s in the group execute means that the sgid bit is set on the | directory. That means that all files created under that directory will | be owned by the same group that owns the directory. Without the sgid | bit, the files would be owned by your primary group.
Ahh, ok thanks. I don't need to find the manpage now :-). | > I think this is a bug in adduser/useradd (whichever one is the | > Debian-specific) and should be fixed. BTW, martin, I was calling the "world readable" the bug, not the "sgid". | $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure --frontend=text adduser | Adduser | ------- ... | Do you want system wide readable home directories? yes Cool. It is already fixed. (a moment later) # dpkg-reconfigure --frontend=text adduser debconf: package "adduser" is not installed or does not use debconf | $ dpkg --status adduser | grep -i version | Version: 3.37 # dpkg --status adduser | grep -i version Version: 3.11.1 Guess I'll have to wait a while for that (I have a potato system). -D