Re: Newbie administrator

[Alvin Oga <aoga@Maggie.Linux-Consulting.com>]

hi ya

On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Robert Storey wrote:
 
> Considering all the subdirectories in /home, it would probably be better to do this:
> 
>   chmod -R 700 /home/*

after you learn from your mistakes ... and have everybody mad at you...
how do you recover ??? 
	- think you're in for a long list of mistakes ... :-)
	if the above chmod -R was a serious command to execute

find /home -type d -exec chmod 700 {} \;
find /home -type f -exec chmod 600 {} \;
find /home -type l -exec chmod 777 {} \;    
	-- i think you need to fix your symlinsk too

and those above permissions is too tight for most users
( should be better for chmod 750  and chmod 640 )

and if i was admining your box... i'd "chmod 750 /sbin /usr/sbin"
and hide/remove root passwds so that i can sleep late or wont be
paged because something broke

flame suit on...
c ya
alvin