Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 14:23:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Aistis Zenkevicius <noc@unix.lt> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: drwxr-xr-x homedir mode for users ? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0011161421350.14798-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <00dd01c04fbd$1fa6eb20$0201a8c0@admin>
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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
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