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Mar 9, 2018 at 3:33 comment added millebi @AndrolGenhald many applications supply helper scripts that set "stupid" permissions (e.g. 700) which then make the files unreadable by other users. It's stupid, I agree, but I've seen it happen too many times to count. forest I agree! Some SA's change the default on secure systems to a different umask :( which usually bites them later. (Stupidity is billable)
Mar 2, 2018 at 23:33 comment added forest Anyone who runs rm -rf with a * anywhere in the argv deserves to lose their data. And @AndrolGenhald is right. Usually root-owned files are readable if created with a umask of 022 (the default). Btw, set -u is a thing. Use it.
Mar 2, 2018 at 17:49 comment added AndrolGenhald "because many activities will change the ownership of files to become root...applications...can't read the default configuration" - Such as? /etc is world-readable by default.
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