Re: about shadow adduser homedir creation?

"Eero Volotinen" <[email protected]> Mon, 2 May 2005 22:30:26 +0300 (EEST)

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

> On Mon, 02 May 2005 11:17:40 -0700, Eero Volotinen
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Well. How this sounds:
>>
>> By default home directories are made with "0700" if there is no
>> /etc/default/useradd -file where is parameter HOMECREATEMASK=xxx, where
>> xxx is value.
>>
>
> 711 works in more scenarios and is just as secure as 0700.
>
>

Maybe I am just too paranoid :) But 711 is only needed in WWW-servers?
(and only in www-servers that don't have support for su-exec)

Why to add more rights that is needed? This is my opinion.

Maybe 711 is most suitable.

-- 
Eero