3 ms·

I remember when someone started running httpd on our university network, and the universal reaction was 'seriously? It's reading stuff out of our private home d

• lmm 11y ago
  \*nix home dirs aren't really "private". They usually default to world-readable, and in a university environment (at least one like mine) there was a culture where people expected friends to look at them.
  • dspillett 11y ago
    > world readable ... there was a culture where people expected friends to look at them Same here. The default user home from /etc/skel (or some equivalent) had a user-access-only area that we were told to put sensitive work (individually marked projects where we were explicitly expected/told not to collaborate on) and other such into. We could protect other directories a little more too if needed, or even open up bits of that one to "group" or "other" (at our own risk) and there were specific groups setup for explicitly collaborative projects (these days I would do away with that and control such collaboration through git or its ilk).