Re: Newbie administrator

[Robert Storey <y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net>]

On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 15:13:59 -0500 (EST)
Mike Dresser <mdresser_l@windsormachine.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Phil wrote:
> 
> > >I think this should work, anyways :)
> > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > do I have to do this individually for each user? (all 120 of them)  is
> > there a way to do this in the skel directory in. the future
> 
> Well, set it for one user, and see if others can get into the directory or
> not.  If not, you can do a
> 
> chmod 700 *
> 
> while in /home, and it will set all directories to drwx------
> permissions.


Considering all the subdirectories in /home, it would probably be better to do this:

  chmod -R 700 /home/*

 - Robert