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1 • Home directory permissions (by Otis on 2022-10-31 00:53:10 GMT from United States)
Open, as my system/network at home is two users who trust each other.
2 • home directory permissions (by JeffC on 2022-10-31 02:22:03 GMT from United States)
Since I am the only user I do not lock it down, it seems pointless to me to do so.
Why would you share a computer with someone that you do not trust?
Why don't they have their own computer?
It is not like they are very expensive these days, even a ten year old computer is still quite usable with Linux on it.
3 • Defaut (by Friar Tux on 2022-10-31 02:25:38 GMT from Canada)
Since we do not keep anything "sensitive" on our machines we just go with whatever default comes with our OS. The only time I ever actually access Permissions is to make AppImages executable.
4 • Lubuntu, etc comparisons (by Greg Zeng on 2022-10-31 02:29:23 GMT from Australia)
Most Ubuntu based systems (17) are based on the last LTS version, which currently is 2204, April this year. Some Ubuntu-lightweights are now being based on the newest 2210, from October this year.
All the Ubuntu familes can use the PPA application updates as required. Standard Linux additions via the command line can as usual be added, and also by compilking from raw source code, if their are enough resources to handle this.
The several "official" inner Ubuntu family are careful to avoid treading too much into territories "owned" by others in the same inner family. So the QT ones of the GTK ones will stay only with the offerings available in their QT of GTK groupings. Hence, the decision which of the file browsers, partition managers etc. to be chosen.
The Ubuntu families (https://distrowatch.com/search.php?ostype=Linux&category=All&origin=All&basedon=Ubuntu) has 47/239 brandnames in total. The lightweights include Peppermint, Lite, LXLE, Xubuntu, and Lubuntu.
The inner Canonical families stay loyal to the Canonical startup, "Snap", avoiding the Red Hat startup, "flatpak". Both these container apps demand much disk storage for the cache of their databases, whether apps are selected or not. Both feature inbuilt authorized update processes, and the "Discover" app can be used with the available apps; snap, flatpak or "Debian" compilations. These containers have variable sensitivities to the user's current settings, such as themes, colors and hardware preferences.
My preferred "Freefilesync" app is available in most flatpak repositories, but not in snap nor Debian. Web browser "Slimjet" is available in only Debian compiled format. Both these two apps are available, with complete recent settings synchronized in every way, on both Linux and Windows.
My preferences are with the outer Ubuntu family members: Mint, Lite and Peppermint. These lightweights can be expanded to heavier use as required. If needed, media, desktops, eye-candy, and others can be added, as desired.
These use Gparted and avoid Canonical's initiative "snap". The Fedora-GTK-Gnome families seem to prefer Wayland & BTRFS. Currently these experiments are not reliable enough for work use, IMHO.
Window's has a proprietry mess with display managers: NVIDIA, INTEL, etc. Wayland is far behind Windows, unable do high DPI, variable speeds, etc. BTRFS has yet to reach the power, reliability & flexiblity of Microsft NTFS. Application creators focus on the generally available users, rather than the minority of users.
5 • default (by Titus_Groan on 2022-10-31 02:54:00 GMT from New Zealand)
ls -l
~
drwx------
screen lock set for 30sec of no activity.
shared USB sticks ext4 formatted with permissions set for promiscuity.
no Windows(TM), but if so, exFAT would be the other option.
6 • directories lock down (by Bobbie Sellers on 2022-10-31 03:21:11 GMT from United States)
No choice on the poll for people who have no other users (aside from Test or Guest account).
bliss- still using pclinuxOS.
7 • directory permissions (by Jay on 2022-10-31 03:57:39 GMT from Germany)
There are two user directories on my primary machine: an administrative user (completely locked down, zero access to others) and a guest user (open to trusted others, persistent shared files included).
A third user exists for untrusted users that operates as a demo, with nothing kept from each session.
8 • Lubuntu lost its vision. (by Lubuntu 22.10 Desktop Tour on 2022-10-31 04:13:06 GMT from India)
What I believe is Lubuntu has lost its vision when they announced their objective is not to be lightweight distribution anymore.i
Now, this project can be seen only as showcase distribution for LXQt.
9 • Home directory (by Vukota on 2022-10-31 06:14:34 GMT from Serbia)
There is a zero chance that majority of people (even experienced) have fully locked down home folder. It doesn't come that way by default on almost any distro and there are lot of programs that simply will refuse to work without at least access rights for all on home folder.
10 • @9 Home directory (by Vic on 2022-10-31 08:33:31 GMT from Canada)
There is most certainly a higher chance than zero as I have at least one system setup locked down by default.
My primary travel device is running Garuda as the installed system and the user folders are fully locked down to others in terms of user permissions by default.
My primary home system is running Ubuntu and the default for that system is to allow read/access for others, which I've left alone.
The two other computers in the house I checked run various Debian/Ubuntu spins and after checking the home folder defaults they too are set to allow read/access for others.
That makes the count 1 locked to 3 read/access here which is still greater than zero.
In saying that I was initially surprised at the early polling results as well. My only explanation is that being at such an early stage for the survey the number of DW visitors who read and respond to it this soon are more experienced linux users with a higher probability of them either running systems which aren't as user friendly out of the box or that they themselves have taken the added precautions to lock there systems down further post install.
Cheers!
11 • Setting permissions - Allowing access to just one specific user (by luvr on 2022-10-31 09:04:16 GMT from Belgium)
Jesse explains that he opens up a 'public_html' directory for use by others:
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chmod u=rwx,g=,o=rx public_html
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I guess that only one specific user (in addition to the owner) really needs access to it, namely the user that runs the web server. There may be cases when opening up a directory to 'the world', just so one specific user gets access, is considered a bad idea.
In such cases, the 'setfacl' command (to set file access control lists) may come in handy.
Consider, for example, a 'public_html' directory to which only you, as the owner, has access:
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$ ls -ld public_html
drwx------ 2 luvr luvr 4096 Oct 31 09:54 public_html
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Now, assume that you want to allow some user, say 'nobody', read and execute access, but not any other users. You can then use the 'setfacl' command to modify the access control list and give user 'nobody' read ans execute access:
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$ setfacl -m nobody:rwx public_html
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If you now look at the 'public_html' directory entry, there wil be a '+'-sign appended to the permission settings (to indicate that access control list entries are set on the directory):
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$ ls -ld public_html
drwxr-x---+ 2 luvr luvr 4096 Oct 31 09:54 public_html
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You can view the access control settings with the 'getfacl' command:
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$ getfacl public_html
# file: public_html
# owner: luvr
# group: luvr
user::rwx
user:nobody:r-x
group::---
mask::r-x
other::---
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Or, in table format:
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$ getfacl -t public_html
# file: public_html
USER luvr rwx
user nobody r-x
GROUP luvr ---
mask r-x
other ---
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12 • Is your home directory open to other users? (by James on 2022-10-31 11:37:53 GMT from United States)
My wife and me only at home, and we both have our own laptops. I am the only user.
13 • No Homies (by Trihexagonal on 2022-10-31 12:38:31 GMT from United States)
There are no other accounts on my machines than my own. I'm root and mine the only usr account. Nobody else has access to either account.
14 • Discontinue i486 Support? (by penguinx86 on 2022-10-31 14:01:51 GMT from United States)
Intel discontinued production of the i486 architecture in 2007. Thats 15 years ago! Who wants to run a 100 mhz 32 bit processor these days? Yes, it's time to move on. A cheap 64 bit Raspberry Pi would leave the i486 in the dust.
15 • rip i486 (by mike a on 2022-10-31 16:30:02 GMT from United States)
im so sad to see 32 bit computers not being supported i feel like thats such a shame.
16 • Fedora Delay and Lubuntu Take (by CorpSouth on 2022-10-31 16:34:10 GMT from United States)
I'm fine with Fedora 37 being delayed, I'm not really living on the edge as I used to... Or not -as- much, in the context of Fedora. Anyone who takes issue with their decision will certainly hate Debian and Ubuntu LTS. Nothing is stopping you from just using fc37, unless it's a very very specific situation that requires digging to find out.
Lubuntu is indeed just a platform for the LXQt environment, it is NOT a lightweight distribution beyond the choice of desktop environment, anymore. LXLE is closer to the old Lubuntu philosophy going as far as having LXDE as its desktop environment of choice. LXLE also comes with the Librewolf browser out of the box, so I can easily recommend that over Lubuntu.
17 • Lubuntu and *ubuntu flavour (by MrSparkleWonder on 2022-10-31 19:01:05 GMT from Mexico)
I tried the Lubuntu LTS this week only to discover ..... appimages cannot be executed
I switched back to Arch where appimages execute no problem
18 • Home (by John on 2022-10-31 19:23:55 GMT from Canada)
For my home systems, $HOME is locked down. At work, everyone on the team I am on has read access to $HOME (AIX). That is because I am the only "real" UNIX person on the team and have been training new people who have never stepped out of Windows Land.
Yes, I am quickly becoming an alcohol/drug addict.
19 • 486 (by dave on 2022-11-01 00:31:22 GMT from United States)
@14 "Who wants to run a 100 mhz 32 bit processor these days?" businesses.. and it's more of a matter of needs than wants.
Intel isn't the only producer of 486 CPUs. You can still buy new 486 processors and boards and the Vortex86 officially supports Linux as late as Debian 10 using the 4.19 kernel. (though most of their support list is using the 2.6 kernel)
Of course, while there remains a small 486 hobbyist market, most of the market is for business/industry, so it's probably true that they will be able to continue business as usual by simply sticking with older software-- which they are probably already doing. The exorbitant cost of writing new software for an old machine is the main reason why there is still a market for new 486 machines.
I'm sure Torvalds and Co. are well aware of the business-oriented use cases, however I enjoy the irony of the guy named penguinx86 overlooking vortex86. ;)
20 • 486 and 32 bit (by penguinx86 on 2022-11-01 05:09:10 GMT from United States)
I appreciate the comment of @19. Yes it's true there may be lots of 486 users out there. It reminds me of when my old i386 non PAE kernel boot laptop was no longer supported. That rendered my old Dell laptop useless. I'm a retired IT guy and I'm working at a temp job disposing of old hardware. Sometimes it breaks my heart to dispose of 500gb SATA spinning hard drives and 8gb DDR3 and DDR4 memory modules. It seems like such a waste! My first computer had 4k of RAM and a 175k floppy drive for storage, for cripes sake. But I made it work. There is so much eWaste these days because of corporate greed. It seems like programmers have taken the back seat behind corporate greed.
21 • @17 (by Harry the Lizard on 2022-11-01 06:11:24 GMT from United States)
"I tried the Lubuntu LTS this week only to discover ..... appimages cannot be executed"
sudo apt install libfuse2 Make the appimage executable.
22 • rip i486 rip i586 rip i686 (by Torvalds Fan Club on 2022-11-01 08:45:58 GMT from Turkey)
as people who have a hobby of dealing with old hardware and software, there are not a few of us, I love the progress of technology, x.org if you need wayland instead, get wayland, the perception that "Linux is only for old hardware" is wrong, Q4OS is a good example, let those who want nostalgia use Trinity, let those who want to look modern use KDE Plasma
23 • the answer is NO... (by tom joad on 2022-11-01 16:39:47 GMT from Germany)
I don't share. All of my hard drives are completely encrypted and only I know the codes. Want to get into my Home folder? Good luck. I hope you are a good guesser. It might take a bit.
24 • Default file / directory creation permissions (by Alexandru on 2022-11-02 07:02:38 GMT from Romania)
Besides chmod for changing permissions of file / directory, there is also umask command in UNIX, which shows / sets default permission mode for future new files / directories.
Umask works with numeric value of permissions (4 for r, 2 for w and 1 for x; x100 for u, x10 for g and x1 for o) and extracting the mask from full permissions. Default umask value is 022, this determines new files/ directories creation permissions as 777 - 022 = 755 (or rwxr-xr-x).
You can find your umask by issuing:
umask
You can set new umask by issuing:
umask
25 • Default file / directory creation permissions (by Alexandru on 2022-11-02 07:03:41 GMT from Romania)
I meant, setting new value with:
umask [new value]
26 • Linux/i486/Legacy CPU (by Paul_y on 2022-11-02 18:01:18 GMT from Romania)
I ran Microsoft Windows 98SE on Intel Pentium 2 MMX CPU @ 450 MHz with just only 128 MB of RAM. Now I run Sparky Linux on Intel i3 ( Ice Lake ) dual core @ 3.40 GHz ( Hyper Threading disabled ) with 4 GB of RAM and Salix Linux on Intel Pentium E5400 dual core @ 2.80 GHz (overclock) with 3 GB of RAM DDR2 848 MHz (overclock). I ran Microsoft Windows XP on Intel Pentium 4 @ 1.6 GHz.
27 • Home directories (by Nathan on 2022-11-02 18:24:38 GMT from United States)
It seems that my situation is rare in modern times. I have an account on a shared research machine at work (AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X 24-Core, 256G RAM, GeForce RTX 3090), and I and the 4 other users (all colleagues) have our home directories open for reading+access. Makes it easy to share datasets that way. Our cluster environment on the other hand with over 2000 non-colleague or distantly-collegiate users has completely locked down home directories. My personal desktop is locked down too, but I'm the only user, so whatever.
28 • @20 (by Justin on 2022-11-02 19:25:34 GMT from United States)
I feel you. I have to gift my old hardware to people (you need an external drive? how about this 360GB USB2 one). I have old laptops still around because they work not because I have any use for them. It would also kill me to see 8GB modules being thrown away. I would be upgrading all the machines I know with them. I take old laptop drives and put them in portable cases. I have a set from replacing them with SSDs and I use them in place of larger USB sticks for things like drive clones or random backup storage.
Those 486 clones must exist because of I/O. DOSBox is great for CPU instructions and one can easily install Win 3.1 or (less easily) Windows 95 if necessary. I run my old 486 games that way.
Corporate greed is definitely a problem but so is wasteful consumer demand. Stuff isn't made to last partly because consumers keep wanting new and shiny and are willing to waste money on it. It's not always worth the cost to build a phone that will survive 10 years when your competitors will use cheaper components that will last 5 years and a majority (no not everyone) of people will replace it after 2-3 because it feels old to them.
29 • @28 (by pengxuin on 2022-11-02 23:34:25 GMT from New Zealand)
must be one of those: (no not everyone).
phone (2013) is running android 4.1.1. It is often remarked upon: "that is the smallest smart phone I've ever seen".
recently installed DOSbox and created a Win95 setup for an old (1996) DOS application.
DOSbox, unfortunately, would not suffice alone to run the application.
30 • $random (by Panther on 2022-11-03 23:24:25 GMT from United States)
@9 well the poll would prove you wrong. Home directory is locked down here as well by default have not had any problem with any program not working.
Just a suggestion for "public" html use the Userdir module see https://www.tecmint.com/enable-apache-userdir-module-on-rhel-centos-fedora/ or similar.
I do not now why all the focus on all the various flavors of Ubuntu , it is all ubuntu and you can install the various desktops from the command line without a fresh install. You certainly do not break down any other distro this way, seems odd.
While we are on the topic, perhaps you would be interested in Fedora variants.
Spins: https://spins.fedoraproject.org/
KDE,XFCE , LXQT, Mate/compiz, cinnamon, LXDE, I3
Labs:
Astronomy, Games, Jam, Design, security, robotics to name a few,
Certainly could make an argument the Fedora spins . Lab deserve at least as much attention you give to all the *buntu flavors, the fedora variants are certainly as rich or richer than the *buntu variants you spend so much time on. As far as I know the Fedora spins are as much or more polished than the *buntu variants.
At least be consistent either lump all *buntu together under 1 umbrella as you do with all the other distros or break out all the variants of all the distros.
31 • @30 (by Justin on 2022-11-04 15:09:26 GMT from United States)
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Damn Small Linux was a business card size (50MB) live CD Linux distribution. Despite its minuscule size it strives to have a functional and easy to use desktop. Damn Small Linux has a nearly complete desktop, including XMMS (MP3, and MPEG), FTP client, links-hacked web browser, spreadsheet, email, spellcheck (US English), a word-processor, three editors (Nedit, nVi, Zile [emacs clone]), Xpdf, Worker (file manager), Naim (AIM, ICQ, IRC), VNCviwer, SSH/SCP server and client, DHCP client, PPP, PPPoE, a web server, calculator, Fluxbox window manager, system monitoring apps, USB support, and soon it will have PCMCIA support as well. If you like Damn Small Linux you can install it on your hard drive. Because all the applications are small and light it makes a very good choice for older hardware.
Status: Discontinued
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