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Re: Permissions - Newbie Style Question



On 12/19/00 5:25 PM, Bob (kentuckybob@worldnet.att.net) wrote:
>I have two questions (for now):  What is the permissions setting for the home
>directories.  I suspect it should be something like rwx------  or 
>rwxrwx--- if
>the group is unique to the specific username.  Is this correct?  

They'll work if you really don't want anybody but the owner poking 
through the directories.

>Is one
>preferable to the other?

A user's home directory should have the user as the user and the group 
anyway so there may not be any difference between rwxrwx--- and 
rwx------.  I like granting user / group rights because it gives me more 
flexibility down the road (say I want to grant a group of people access 
to a certain folder)



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