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For old accounts, the default was to leave home directories and newly created files at 755 (user:rwx group:r-x other:r-x). We have changed the default behavior for new students to:
If you would like to adopt the new behavior, please run the following commands. Note that it may take a while depending on the number of files in your home directory.
cd "${HOME}" find . -not -type l -not -path "./public_html*" -exec chmod o-rwx {} \; find . -not -type l -not -path "./public_html*" -exec chmod g-rwx {} \; find . -type d -not -path "./public_html*" -exec setfacl -d -m u::rwx,g::-,o::- {} \; chmod o+x . chmod g+x .