Comment 7 for bug 20128

(In reply to comment #6)
> Use case:
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> A family computer is shared by the parents as well as two children, Suzy and
> Johnny. Suzy is 14. She likes to talk to her friends online. A lot. She
> keeps her IM conversations logged and sometimes writes in her diary.
>
> Johnny is 12 and, naturally, likes to pry into Suzy's business. He logs in as
> his user but then browses around through Suzy's home directory, reading her IM
> conversations. From time to time, Johnny likes to check his father's gnucash
> ledger to make sure he is getting a proportionate amount of money for his
allowance.
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Use case:
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Suzy has taken some photos of the countryside on her digital camera and wants to
leave them for Johnny to use in his school project. She doesn't have any web
space, and the quota on Johnny's e-mail account is too small to be able to
e-mail him the files. She doesn't know how to make her home directory
world-readable so that Johnny can get to the photos when she's out. Frustrated,
she gives up and wastes paper by printing them out so that Johnny has to work
out how to use the scanner.
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I would far rather see a good UI where it's obvious just from looking at a
nautilus window which files are world-readable and which aren't, and how to
change them, so that users can act appropriately. Non-readable home directories
are a pain in the backside on multi-user systems.