Dear list, I am wondering, why on a multiuser system like debian the rights for a normal user are "rw- r-- r--", (owner: user and ownergroup: usergroup)
Of course there is a reason for this, but it is not understandable for me. First two are clear: rw for myself, and readable for all users, i am allowing into my own grou. The last one is not clear for me. Why should I allow the rest of the world read my personal documents? These are private and no one else should be able to read them! So I would have expected a setting of "rw- r-- ---" for any files. Before someone argues, "you can change this by editing umask", yes, I know of this of course. But it is not clear for me, why it is set that way by default and not as I would have expected as described above. Sure, there is a reason for this, so I will be happy, if someone could enlighten me. Best Hans
