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Bug 91166

Summary: why shadow's useradd creates insecure home directories?
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Eero Volotinen <eero>
Component: [OLD] baselayoutAssignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: major    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description Eero Volotinen 2005-05-02 06:10:17 UTC
As gentoo by default creates homedirectories as 751 (rwx,rx,x) and users are in users group this creates major security hole? Other users can read others files?



Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-05-02 06:44:20 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 69783 ***