[Toolserver-l] making your home directory world writable is a bad idea

[River Tarnell]

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once a month or so, someone complains that suddenly, ssh won't let
them log in.  usually, this is because they made their home directory
world writable.

i have no idea what would possess someone to do this (since, among
other things, it would let anyone take over your account), but
whatever you think it's going to fix: don't do it.  you won't be able
to log in anymore.

(also, anyone who thinks 'hmmm, giving everyone write access to my
home directory would be a good idea' should probably stop and learn
about Unix and security before doing anything more on the toolserver.)

        - river.
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