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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
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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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