Hello! On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:31:31 -0600 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: > On Monday 2009 January 12 12:56:56 Florian Mickler wrote: > >soon i found out, that she had tried to clean up her homefolder > >(organizing her files in folders, as she has learned in some > >computer-course she has taken) > > Organizing *her* files in one thing, and good. Organizing > application files is usually a no-no unless you are fully aware of > everything that can break (and are willing to fix it). > > >somehow she has succeeded in moving her complete homefolder > >(.*-files included) into subfolders of her homefolder... > >i don't know how that can happen, but apparently there are no > >safeguards in place. (Or at least they are easily clicked away) > > I suppose that is by design. UNIX (and Linux) made it a point to > make sure that files and be moved/renamed/removed when they are in > use. Also, user have full access to files in their home folder by > default, even if the beginners maybe shouldn't use all that access. > ISTR a young freshman that completely broke their university email by > hand-editing their mailbox. yeah. i too have borked some systems by accident in my time. > You might be able to get the desired behavior by using acls. > (Removing the ability to rename/delete files in ~her_user, while > keeping the ability to create files in ~her_user would be a start.) i will look into acls. thx. Sincerely, Florian
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