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From: Alex Boag-Munroe <ninpo@qap.la>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Setting default HOME_MODE in /etc/login.defs
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2024 02:20:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANvbShpYki1pXWigjd5KRZmEKM5WtP8Nnm=OPMHbckwhwRpp_g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7c27d602-03eb-40fa-a1b9-798ef742d173@gmail.com>

On Sun, 11 Feb 2024 at 02:12, Eli Schwartz <eschwartz93@gmail.com> wrote:
<snip>
> - someone who added another account to their user group probably did so
>   with the expectation that they'd be sharing files with that other
>   account, and 700 mode in particular feels like going against that

This change of default would only affect creation of new
accounts/setup on new installs so anyone that already has another user
in their group would be unaffected. A notification on change of
default/updated documentation should be sufficient for people looking
to create accounts and give groups access to things in the future.


  reply	other threads:[~2024-02-11  2:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-10 16:57 [gentoo-dev] RFC: Setting default HOME_MODE in /etc/login.defs Daniel Simionato
2024-02-10 23:52 ` John Helmert III
2024-02-11  1:08   ` Alex Boag-Munroe
2024-02-11  2:01 ` Michael Orlitzky
2024-02-11 10:06   ` Sam James
2024-02-11 13:08     ` Michał Górny
2024-02-11  2:12 ` Eli Schwartz
2024-02-11  2:20   ` Alex Boag-Munroe [this message]
2024-02-11  8:00 ` Ulrich Mueller
2024-02-11  9:33   ` James Le Cuirot
2024-02-11 10:10 ` Sam James
2024-02-11 10:53   ` Eray Aslan
2024-02-11 11:16     ` Daniel Simionato
     [not found]   ` <0ca8c68f-11e3-4a68-a857-bfd040e6b084@iodoru.org>
2024-02-13 20:01     ` Daniel Simionato
2024-02-11 13:37 ` Arsen Arsenović

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