[Adduser-devel] Bug#303372: adduser ignores "world readable directories" setting

manchmal manchmal <manchmal@gmail.com>, 303372@bugs.debian.org
Wed, 6 Apr 2005 13:37:01 +0200


Package: adduser
Version: 3.63

# dpkg-reconfigure adduser
...you might want your home directories only readable by the user...
Do you want system wide readable home directories? NO
(logout)

# useradd -m testuser
ls -la /home/
drwxr-xr-x   2 testuser   users 4096 Apr  6 13:31 testuser

What happened? Home directory is world readable
What should have happened? Home directory only readable by user, i.e.
drwx------   2 testuser   users 4096 Apr  6 13:31 testuser