new user home dir given restrictive permissions
Bug #20128 reported by
Simon Smith
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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GST |
Fix Released
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Medium
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gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Sebastien Bacher |
Bug Description
when a new user is added with the Users and Groups capplet the permissions on
their home directory are:
drwx------
so it is not readable by anyone other than that user and root.
i don't know whether this is intentional for security reasons, but it prevents
gdm from reading the users' face picture (~/.face) for the face browser on the
greeter.
although the current ubuntu gdm theme doesn't use the browser at the mo, it
probably will sometime soon (see bug #14630), so this will become a problem
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Changed in gst: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
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Thanks for your bug. What version of Ubuntu do you use? The default mode is this
one for security reason. That works fine with the current gdm for me.