[NTLUG:Discuss] permissions

[Leroy Tennison]

On 04/25/2013 03:10 PM, Fred James wrote:
> There is a good deal of discussion on a list for one distro (left 
> un-named intentionally), on the default permissions for the "primary" 
> user's home directory.  When installing, the user is set up as 755.  
> Later users are added as 700.
>
> Question:  I don't care what your distro is ... just under what the 
> default is for user home directories (install/primary, and added)?
>
> Thanks
> Regards
> Fred James
>
>
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If I understand your question correctly, you want to know what 
determines the default permissions assigned to a home directory. Look 
under /etc/skel/ and/or /etc/default/ as well as /etc/bashrc, 
/etc/profile and /etc/login.defs.  Basically the issue is what umask 
value is set, if the distro has pam_umask it may be a source as well.