Re: chmod, or better solutions ?

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 10/12/08 08:56, Shams Fantar wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to know if it's very fine and "clean" to chmod -R 700 / ; Or
> are there any better solutions ? My purpose beeing that local users
> can't access/read any file which isn't in their own home directory.

As others have said, this is pretty much guaranteed to break your 
system.

Here's something that will *mostly* work, and is restricted to 
simply adding the Read bit to All users.

# chmod -R a+r /home

The problem is that this command is also a bit broad, and you'll 
have to go back and fix everyone's ~/.gnupg plus maybe some others 
that I can't think of at the moment.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

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