On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 12:06 PM Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <edua...@kalinowski.com.br> wrote: > > On 14/07/2024 14:09, Hans wrote: > > 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. > > I kind of agree with that in principle, and I've always used an umask > 077 myself. > > On the other hand, I'm the only user in my system, so it doesn't really > matter. I expect that is the case for most users. > > I'm not sure if the Debian default should be changed, though.
Debian is a multi-user operating system. Decisions should be made accordingly. I suppose umask is a moot point on phones and tablets, where single-user is often the use case. Jeff
