On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 02:19, Matthew S. Hallacy wrote: > On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 10:56:34PM -0500, David Phillips wrote: > > If a user does not want a world readable home directory, he can change it: > > > > chmod o-rx ~ > > Do you trust every single program you run to not set a file g+rw? The issue > isn't readable home directories, it's readable files, bad umask, and naughty > programs that write group read/write-able files. Well, a good umask value can help sometimes. Setting umask to 027 would prevent most programs from making world-readable files. Some apps would undoubtedly ignore/override those permissions, but not too many... -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ The BFI is after me! / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20030916/1e48e26b/attachment.pgp