[mturmon]

Yeah, on the time sharing Unix systems I would use in the 80s and 90s, everyone’s home directory (and most everything under it) was world readable by default. You could change the permissions, but most people didn’t.

I feel like those old folks who tell of a time when people didn’t bother to lock their doors at night.

[usr1106]

The home directory of the 1980s was the github and Stackoverflow of today. When I had a problem I just run grep to see what others had done. There was no internet to ask anybody. And people did not do banking, store photos or anything like that on their computer. I guess mbox was read protected for group and others already back then.

[throwawayboise]

I think on Ubuntu/Debian this is still the default; the UMASK in /etc/login.defs is 022.

[usr1106]

But multiuser computers are much less the default then back then. Even kids have their own one because they need it in school (at least in this country).

[mongol]

I think OpenSuse too. I recently converted mine to user private group handling

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...