[Adduser-devel] Default Homedir Permissions

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Thu Feb 17 16:18:08 UTC 2011


On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 07:14, Ian Jackson
<ijackson at chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> [Someone] writes ("Re: Default Homedir Permissions"):
>> [stuff]
>
> We are in danger of wasting a lot of time with this discussion.
>
> The general pattern is that someone who is unhappy with the state of
> the world proposes a substantial change.  The worry amongst the rest
> of us is that the change might go ahead if we don't oppose it.

More simply, the option could be put in the default install instead of
only the expert install. Make the default choice the current behavior,
but let local administrators choose what is best for their system.

-- 
-Austin



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