Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 10:43:22 +0100 From: Peter Risdon <peter@circlesquared.com> To: z3l3zt@hackunite.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is the chmod values in /home insecure by default? Message-ID: <40839F3A.30605@circlesquared.com> In-Reply-To: <2622.213.112.193.91.1082364839.squirrel@mail.hackunite.net> References: <2622.213.112.193.91.1082364839.squirrel@mail.hackunite.net>
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Jesper Wallin wrote: >Hello.. > >I'm running FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p5 and when I create new user accounts with "adduser", >the home directories are world readable/executable.. Sure, it might be useful if I want >to publish a website in my public_html, but yet, it should be up to the user if he want >to have his homedir world-readable, but by default it should be set to "chmod 700" or >"chmod 750" if each user has their own group imho. However, I saw that "adduser" had a >config file (/etc/adduser.conf) but the there is no manual entry for adduser.conf and I >can't find any example for it.. How can I change the default permission for new >home-directories? > > This might help: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/freebsd/2000-08/0361.html Basically, you need to change the permissions f the directory /usr/share/skel and its contents. PWR.
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