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Re: [users] Re: Why can't I?



On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 01:11:49PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
> By "make my machine download things" do you mean that he logs in and
> uses ftp or a web browser?  If so, then he ought to be downloading the
> stuff into his own home directory.  By default (and quite naturally)
> users _can't_ see someone else's home directory unless that person
> explicitly makes it readable.

wrong, debian creates home directories mode 755, world readable by
default like all other *nixes that have come before it.  

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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