Adduser devel - Nov 2006 - Bug#398793: adduser: Non system wide readable (home) directories should not be 751

Package: adduser
Version: 3.99
Severity: normal

Hi,

Non system wide readable (home) directories should be 750, not 751.
Or, the question should be made more clear, for example by replacing readable by
listable.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, ''unstable''), (500,
''testing''), (500, ''stable''), (1,
''experimental'')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-2-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages adduser depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]       1.5.8        Debian configuration management sy
ii  passwd                      1:4.0.18.1-5 change and administer password and
ii  perl-base                   5.8.8-6.1    The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis

adduser recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
* adduser/homedir-permission: false

This one time, at band camp, Olaf van der Spek said:
> Non system wide readable (home) directories should be 750, not 751.
> Or, the question should be made more clear, for example by replacing
> readable by listable.
That seems reasonable on the face of it.  Mark, opinions?  I''m willing
to go either way, although I think adduser is frozen, so this change is
unlikely to make etch without some prodding.
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Marc Haber wrote:
 > On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 05:56:42PM +0000, Stephen Gran wrote:
 >> This one time, at band camp, Olaf van der Spek said:
 >>> Non system wide readable (home) directories should be 750, not
751.
 >>> Or, the question should be made more clear, for example by
replacing
 >>> readable by listable.
 >> That seems reasonable on the face of it.  Mark, opinions?
 >
 > I think that 751 is still appropriate just in case one wants to make a
 > subdirectory group accessible. But I am unemotional here.

In that case, could you change the question to a multiselect that also 
allows 750 to be chosen?
-- 
Olaf van der Spek
http://xccu.sf.net/

On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 05:56:42PM +0000, Stephen Gran
wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Olaf van der Spek said:
> > Non system wide readable (home) directories should be 750, not 751.
> > Or, the question should be made more clear, for example by replacing
> > readable by listable.
> 
> That seems reasonable on the face of it.  Mark, opinions?
I think that 751 is still appropriate just in case one wants to make a
subdirectory group accessible. But I am unemotional here.

Greetings
Marc

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On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 11:07:24PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek
wrote:
> In that case, could you change the question to a multiselect that also 
> allows 750 to be chosen?
That is a non-option for etch because it would invalidate translations.

After conferring with aba about this issue, it seems that nobody
besides you seems to have a strong opinion about this change, and I am
therefore inclined to say "don''t change". I would appreciate
if you
could bring this up on debian-devel so that we can see what is rough
consensus about this issue.

Please take ~/public_html into this consideration.

Greetings
Marc

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