[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#1070085: Enhancing default home folder permissions for improved privacy
Håvard F. Aasen
havard.f.aasen at pfft.no
Mon Apr 29 23:16:23 BST 2024
Package: login
Version: 1:4.13+dfsg1-4
Severity: normal
Hi,
Could default home folder permissions lean towards greater privacy,
while administrators can adjust permissions to be less strict if
necessary? In my mind, this is a more practical approach to both
security and privacy.
Several distributions, including Ubuntu, Fedora [1], Arch [2] and
openSUSE [3], have already implemented more privacy-oriented permissions.
What I would like is to have 'HOME_MODE' [4] uncommented.
Would it be possible to implement this, or a similar change in Debian?
Regards,
--
Håvard
[1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/shadow-utils/blob/rawhide/f/shadow-utils.login.defs
[2] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/shadow/-/blob/main/0003-Add-Arch-Linux-defaults-for-login.defs.patch?ref_type=heads
[3] https://build.opensuse.org/projects/openSUSE:Factory/packages/shadow/files/shadow-login_defs-suse.patch
[4] https://salsa.debian.org/debian/shadow/-/blob/master/debian/login.defs?ref_type=heads#L156
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