[NTLUG:Discuss] permissions

Christopher Cox cjcox at acm.org
Thu May 2 01:20:59 CDT 2013


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)?

I don't think there is a wrong answer here.  Well.. except if group or other has
write... then ssh isn't going to work anymore.





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