The 0755 permission allow single users to see the home directory of the others users. Please, consider
to use 0750 as default permission to each home directory created by adduser command. IMHO, it is an
important action to preserve the security of the users. Other option is to set the debconf question
about this issue as high.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Eriberto - Brazil

Dear Maintainer,

Unless I'm wrong, I expected the home directories to be set to mode 0700.
Instead, they are still set to 0755 because /etc/adduser.conf still has:

# If DIR_MODE is set, directories will be created with the specified
# mode. Otherwise the default mode 0755 will be used.
DIR_MODE=0755

Can this be set by default? From the security point of view alone it should be the route to go.
When the package is updated it should ask the user if this wants to be set, say if the file was modified recently.

Thanks!

Cheers,

Dario Susman

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
adduser, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 202943@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de> (supplier of updated adduser package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 20:30:00 +0200
Source: adduser
Architecture: source
Version: 3.122
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Adduser Developers <adduser@packages.debian.org>
Changed-By: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Closes: 202943 239825 398793 432562 520037 521883 588872 643559 664869 675804 679746 685532 701110 723572 774046 849265 874560 891748 896916 908997 920739 923059 925511 926262 969217 977678 979385 983405 992163 1001863 1006897 1006941 1006975 1007785 1008081 1008091 1014395 1014448
Changes:
 adduser (3.122) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   [ Marc Haber ]
   * improve package description.
   * Standards-Version: 4.6.1 (no changes necessary)
   * clean out EXTRA_GROUPS to only contain users.
     Thanks to Daniel Keast. (Closes: #849265)
   * add SECURITY section to manual pages.
   * add test for backups of home directory.
   * improve and update lintian overrides.
   * Formatting changes to manual pages.
     Thanks to Markus Hiereth. (Closes: #874560)
   * fix some typos in manual pages.
   * set VERBOSE and DEBUG envvars in deluser as well. (Closes: #1006897)
   * add documentation about adduser being a policy layer. (Closes: #1007785)
   * try to clarify system account terminology (policy vs system).
     (Closes: #1006975)
   * Document that only adduser --system is idempotent. (Closes: #723572)
   * error out for two-argument addgroup.
     Thanks to Mike Dornberger. (Closes: #664869)
   * make --add_extra_groups into --add-extra-groups. (Closes: #1014395)
   * --force-badname is now --allow-badname. (Closes: #1014448)
   * update turkish debconf translation.
     Thanks to Atila KOÇ. (Closes: #908997)
   * Update Russian debconf translation.
     Thanks to Lev Lamberov. (Closes: #920739)
   * Update Danish debconf translation (Closes: #923059)
   * Update Italian debconf translation.
     Thanks to Luca Monducci. (Closes: #969217)
   * Update German man page translation.
     Thanks to Helge Kreutzmann. (Closes: #977678)
   * Update European Portuguese translation of man page.
     Thanks to Américo Monteiro. (Closes: #925511)
   * disable translated manpages, none left for the time being.
   * deprecate planned directory service support.
   * Add docs about adduser.local being the place to interact with DS,
   * Some improvements to autopkgtests.
 .
   [ Matt Barry ]
   * System account home dir defaults to /nonexistent. (Closes: #679746)
   * do not accept all-numeric user names. (Closes: #891748)
   * prompts need y/n/empty(default).
   * Implement SYS_DIR_MODE. (Closes: #1008081, #202943, #398793)
   * Implement SYS_NAME_REGEX. (Closes: #521883, #432562)
   * Deprecate SETGID_HOME.
     Add NEWS/TODO items. (Closes: #643559, #979385, #1008091, #643559)
   * Fix ignored files for --remove-all-files.
     (Closes: #1001863, #588872, #926262, #992163)
   * Redefines the default NO_DEL_PATHS to avoid unnecessary
     scanning.
   * Change deluser_files test to use gzip.
   * Fix deletion of sockets/pipes. (Closes: #685532)
   * Simplify checkname sub.  (Closes: #1006941)
   * Adds support for lock files. (Closes: #983405)
   * Username validity testing framework.
   * Add --allow-all-names to bypass --force-badname.
     (Closes: #520037, #774046)
   * use warnf instead of printf in some places. (Closes: #675804)
   * Support tar --auto-compress for backups. (Closes: #896916)
   * Many improvements to autopkgtests. (Closes: 239825)
 .
   [ Jason Franklin ]
   * Allow for cloned-UID users in group member lists.
     Thanks to Daniel Heimann. (Closes: #701110)
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