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Re: Home dir Permissions



Tim Thomson <tim.thomson@usa.net> writes:

> I like to have personal web space turned on (ie http://server/~tim/), so I
> can easily access files (such as lynx bookmarks - point the bookmark file
> at /~/HTML/bookmarks.html, I can then pick this up on any remote system).
> 
> What I want to know is, what are the best permissions to set my home
> directory to and the HTML directory to.

How about this:

chmod o=x /home/tim 
find /home/tim/public_html -type d | xargs chmod o=x
find /home/tim/public_html -type f | xargs chmod o=r 
(or whatever the dir is called in which the server looks for userhomepages)

Better try it on a dummyuser first :-)

Ciao,
	Martin


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