91166 – why shadow's useradd creates insecure home directories?

Bug 91166 - why shadow's useradd creates insecure home directories?

Summary: why shadow's useradd creates insecure home directories?

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 69783

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] baselayout (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High major (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages

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Reported:	2005-05-02 06:10 UTC by Eero Volotinen
Modified:	2005-07-17 13:06 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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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 ***