Bug 170750

Summary:	Home dir permissions not consistent
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Need Real Name <lsof>
Component:	system-config-users	Assignee:	Peter Vrabec <pvrabec>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Need Real Name 2005-10-14 12:39:27 UTC

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Description of problem:
Adding a user to the system is not consistent across the gui and command line tools.

The adduser and useradd utilites create world readable home directories.
The gui tool creates a user readable home directory.

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How reproducible:
Always

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Comment 3 n0dalus 2006-01-13 11:41:47 UTC

Reproducable in devel on 13th Jan 2006.

system-config-users-1.2.41-1.1
shadow-utils-4.0.14-1

Comment 4 Nils Philippsen 2006-03-07 12:22:12 UTC

This will have to wait until after FC5 is out as s-c-users uses libuser which
uses /etc/libuser.conf (and not /etc/login.defs) which doesn't provide means to
set the home directory mode.

Comment 6 Miloslav Trmač 2006-03-07 14:02:45 UTC

libuser currently hardcodes mode 0700.

I personally consider the default permissions of 0750 on home directories
created by adduser a security issue (if not in the application, at minimum in
the default configuration); useradd did use 0700 in the past (using an RH
patch to the default configuration, IIRC), why was it changed?

#160644 doesn't really explain anything, neither does the lack of an upstream
answer in the thread at #160644c2;  security should trump upstream defaults
IMHO.  I must have overlooked some important reason for the status quo...

As I recall, firstboot is now using luseradd to add users only because luseradd
uses mode 0700.

Comment 7 Need Real Name 2006-03-07 14:09:10 UTC

off-topic, but you'd probably be horrified to see what debian does:
world readable /home/username AND /root/. ugh.

Comment 8 Peter Vrabec 2006-03-07 15:38:44 UTC

Finally, I changed shadow-utils to use mode 0700 by default.
shadow-utils-4.0.14-3