Articles Tagged as ‘home directories’


/home/ – Ubuntu Home Directories are world readable by default

I recently discovered Ubuntu has home directory permissions default to world readable. In other words, any unprivileged user, including guests users, are able to access and read the home directory data for any other user. For those who store sensitive information on a multi-user computer, this can be a significant security problem or at least [...]


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