alt Hacker NewsWell, for one, Debian and Debian-based distros make your home directory readable by everyone by default.
Security is riddled by traps. If you can afford best possible level of isolation, why not do it?
Well, for one, Debian and Debian-based distros make your home directory readable by everyone by default.
Security is riddled by traps. If you can afford best possible level of isolation, why not do it?
Yep, I broke locate when I made my home 700. Its user could not traverse my files anymore. I had to make it run as root. A better design would be to traverse each user home with that user id but apparently it assumes that the home dirs are 755.