Comment 46 for bug 48734

I was horrified to find my home dir open, and Googled this post.

I simply can't believe the rationale - okay, we are geeks using Linux wearing tinfoil hats but please: you are going to sacrifice security for the sake of ... I don't exactly know how to put it... a badly implemented sharing feature, perhaps?

Running a webserver, I found out that if someone somehow manages to get shell access with the very limited webserver user, which runs silly rbash (restricted bash), they will have access to ALL users home dirs - also administrators.
But of course, then they will be pleased to see, how easy filesharing is on Ubuntu.

There must be a more intelligent solution to this security issue.