Hi, * Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> [031014 10:42]: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 05:23:44PM +0900, Nick Hastings wrote: > > * Ryan Nowakowski <tubaman@mailandnews.com> [031012 16:56]: > > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 10:53:46AM -0500, Wathen, Metherion wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I need to know how to change permissions of each user so that > > > > they only see their own home directory. As I write this i'm thinking > > > > that I have to change the groups they are in, is that correct? > > > > > > chmod 700 /home/* > > > > Do _not_ do this. You don't want everything to be executable. You > > just want to remove read permission for everyone except the owner. To > > do that: > > > > chmod -R go-r /home > > The advice in the post you're replying to is much less invasive: note > that it doesn't have the -R flag, so it only affects the directories in > /home itself. These should all be executable anyway. My mind had automatically inserted a -R when reading "chmod 700 /home/*". My bad. I was wrong. Cheers, Nick. -- Debian testing/unstable Linux twofish 2.6.0-test7-looxt93c2 i686 GNU/Linux
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