Comment 12 for bug 48734

Whatever solution is decided upon, as long as home dirs via adduser etc. are NOT world readable then its ok.
We should also be educating users instead of getting them into bad habits such as sharing home directories - you won't see any decent administrator set this up on a LAN's LDAP or similar.

The basic concept is this: A user has a password, which suggests that a user's resources are protected by this password. Currently this is not the case due to the wrong mentality and current policy in Ubuntu.

I've pointed out to dozens of users that 'hey did you know anyone can read your home folder?'. They are inheritantly shocked when they check my accusation, and a lot reply with 'Gee, Windows is even more secure than this'.

So whats next? IMHO, we should be looking at how other operating systems current share files between local users - check OS X, MS Windows, other distros/*nix etc. Personally I think one of the management options is the DE to provide a tool to share a folder - and hey lets not forget that in Gnome and KDE users can already click a folder and goto its permission's and easily change who can read it. Ideally I think that that every user should know the basics to UNIX/Posix FS permissions also.