Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser
On Mon, 28 Nov 2022 15:50:56 +0000, Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org>
wrote:
>On Tue, 2022-07-19 at 08:49 +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
>> We implemented that change last week, and promptly a bug report
>> (#1014901) appeared, giving what we consider good arguments to change
>> this back to 0700. Here is what the adduser team considers possible
>> documentation for this, and we itend to include this in NEWS.Debian as a
>> rationale for the change.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> As mode 0700 provides both the most secure, unsurprising default, and is
>> in line with most other major distributions, the adduser team considers
>> the matter to be settled; any further discussion should come prepared
>> with rationale, support, convincing use cases and a significant public
>> discussion period.
>
>Ubuntu changed the default DIR_MODE to 0750 in January 2021 [1] with the
>same intention than Debian now. I like to see Debian and Ubuntu agree on
>one default DIR_MODE to keep the package difference small and make
>documentation shareable.
See NEWS.Debian for adduser 3.123 and the "default for DIR_MODE"
chapter in
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/adduser/-/blob/master/debian/README ¹.
I am tired of this discussion and will not change this decision until
overridden by the ctte.
Greetings
Marc
¹ the next upload will have this README actually installed to the
package, I apologize for this bug
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