Hi Greg, yes, did already change it. However, this looks like a security hole for me, as I believe, not many people or admins are changing this.
IMO debian should change this in the next release, but I doubt it. I will ask the security team for it, they will decide. Have fun! Hans Am Sonntag, 14. Juli 2024, 19:18:07 CEST schrieb Greg Wooledge: > On Sun, Jul 14, 2024 at 19:09:54 +0200, Hans wrote: > > 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) > > Tradition, and a culture based around sharing. > > The Unix culture of openness and freedom (specifically the freedom to > distribute your work to others) works best if you can say "Hey Betty, > can you take a look at my .bashrc? I can't get my foo() function to > work." Or "Hey friends, I've made some changes to my bar.c file that > you might want to look at." And then they can just read the files > directly from your home directory. > > If you don't like this setting, change it.
