Ubuntu
gnome-system-tools package

  1. Bug #20128
  2. Comment #0

Comment 0 for bug 20128

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Simon Smith (smith-simon) wrote :

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