[Adduser-devel] Package: adduser

[Marc Haber]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 11:29:35AM +0100, Roland Kasprzak wrote:
> i am a user of Debian for some years and i work as a trainer in Linux.
> I often have to handle with the default settings i the adduser-script 
> for "dir_mode". In the most trainings there is the question "How can 
> Debian be a secure system with such default settings in adduser?".

Security by Obscurity does not work. If you want protected data,
change the file modes, or adduser's default.

> I hope you all will change these settings.

No.

Greetings
Marc

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