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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020 13:31:08 -0700
From: Kurt H Maier <khm@...ops.net>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Debian FEATURE: /home/loser is with permissions
755, default umask 0022
On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 09:41:39PM +0200, Solar Designer wrote:
> I also think the defaults should be changed, and not only on Debian.
This is just kicking the can down the road. X years ago people
complained about oppressive defaults. X years from now these defaults
will also be insufficient. We could save a lot of treadmill labor
dollars by just admitting that global filesystem namespaces are a
mistake, but the sunk cost fallacy is preventing this. It's the same
story as SETUID all over again.
khm
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