Incorrect permissions for home directories
Bug #63360 reported by
Boris Kolar
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #67128: Incorrect permissions (home directories).
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Bug Description
Home directories (home/<username> created by installer , /root) have 0755 permissions, which allows users to read other user's files and directories. Permissions should be set to 0700.
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This is an explicit design decision to make sharing files easy (and feasible at all for non-techy users). Files with sensible data (emails, SSH/GPG keys, etc.) are created with appropriate privileges anyway.