Default home directory permissions

"Octavio Alvarez" <[email protected]> Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:21:38 -0800

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.pld.shadow.general
Organization	TBC Universidad
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi!

I'm seeing that useradd uses 755 to create home user directories, which is  
not good for users with shell users accounts. Is there any particular  
reason for this? Wouldn't 711 be better? It wouldn't break neither  
Slackware nor Redhat. 755 allows any user to read any other user home  
directory.

Octavio.