> After conferring with aba about this issue, it seems that nobodybesides you seems to have a strong opinion about this change, and I am therefore inclined to say "don''t change". How do you view world-readable home dirs from a privacy and security point of view then?> Please take ~/public_html into this consideration.~/public_html is not part of a default Debian install. It''s not even part of a default Apache install. I''d like to err on the safe side. Olaf