Raspberry Pi OS • Default user permission is now 700, was 755

I have just spent a while chasing a permission denied problem and eventually discovered that the cause is that my user on creation of the system has permission 700, whereas it used to default to 755.
Easy to change it but I wonder why the default has been changed, can anyone enlighten me?

Thanks
Mick

Statistics: Posted by micksulley — Sat Sep 27, 2025 3:20 pm

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