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Date:      Wed, 14 Oct 1998 08:41:19 +0100
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To:        Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr>
Cc:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: pwd.db?
Message-ID:  <19981014084119.B23457@scientia.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981014072436.29820A-100000@finland.ispro.net.tr>
References:  <19981013165236.A945@scientia.demon.co.uk> <Pine.BSF.3.96.981014072436.29820A-100000@finland.ispro.net.tr>

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Evren Yurtesen wrote:

> can't I make home directory just readable by root too ?
> is not it possible for people to be able to read just their home
> directories?

As I said,

# chmod o-r /home

or wherever your home directories are. Note that

# chmod o-x /home

would be quite a bad idea :-)

-- 
Ben Smithurst                                          ben@scientia.demon.co.uk

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