From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 16 22:56:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from samba.bjwcs.com (samba.bjwcs.com [192.148.252.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9121237B4C5 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 22:56:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from rhumba (cx453106-a.elcjn1.sdca.home.com [24.21.8.120]) by samba.bjwcs.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 8BAA5428C for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 01:56:28 -0500 (EST) From: "Brent Wiese" To: "freebsd-questions" Subject: RE: drwxr-xr-x homedir mode for users ? Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 22:56:29 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Also consider that in this day and age it seems like every user wants a web site. Since you shouldn't be running apache (or any www server) as root, whatever user its running as needs permissions to get into the users directory where the web pages are stored. Should be pretty easy to change the adduser script though. Brent > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Jan Grant > Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 6:23 AM > To: Aistis Zenkevicius > Cc: freebsd-questions > Subject: Re: drwxr-xr-x homedir mode for users ? > > > On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Aistis Zenkevicius wrote: > > > hi dudes, > > > > maybe dear "all" could explain to me why default homedir mode for > > newly created users is drwxr-xr-x ? from my > > stupid view of world i don't understand this :)) > > Presumably you understand what those permissions _mean_, and are > asking: why so open? > > Answer: historically and culturally any tradition that comes out of > Berkeley is going to be pretty liberal. > > > -- > jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ > Tel +44(0)117 9287163 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk > Strive to live every day as though it was last Wednesday. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message