Comment 53 for bug 48734

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Chris Rainey (ckrzen) wrote :

Wow! Approaching 13-years and counting on this bug. Neat.

Desktop Linux: The principle of least astonishment (POLA) should _always_ be priority-one with Security. Open $HOME's are a surprise to me and everyone I know.

Now that cloud storage has taken the desktop users of the world by storm, is the need to have open(r-x) $HOME dirs still needed?

We've lost the 'Guest" user login since 18.04 and we've lost ecryptfs as an option in the installer. Why not just throw a simple toggle into the installer, to surface this issue, offering admins the option?