From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 16 6:25:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF31537B479 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 06:25:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 14:24:53 +0000 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13wPwU-0004BA-00; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 14:23:10 +0000 Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 14:23:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant To: Aistis Zenkevicius Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: drwxr-xr-x homedir mode for users ? In-Reply-To: <00dd01c04fbd$1fa6eb20$0201a8c0@admin> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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