Subject: Re: bug#27135: /root is world readable by default

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 18:11:59 +0200

Hi Alex,

Alex Griffin <[email-masked]> skribis:

> After a default install of GuixSD, anybody can read root's home
> directory. I think /root should have permissions 700 instead of 755.

Fixed in 41db5a756369f5b14d1e67a523ee0940cad56744.

For the other user accounts, useradd(8) does its thing, and apparently
it defaults to world-readable accounts (it defaults to a umask of 022 as
written in the man page).

Thoughts?

Thanks,
Ludo’.