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

  • December 8th, 2009
  • Posted in Ubuntu & Linux

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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