Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 09:26:09 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> To: Dave <north1@nexicom.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: home chmod Message-ID: <20010906092609.B58264@itouchnz.itouch> In-Reply-To: <001501c13651$8627f120$0100a8c0@north1>; from north1@nexicom.com on Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:27:10PM -0400 References: <001501c13651$8627f120$0100a8c0@north1>
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On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:27:10PM -0400, Dave wrote:
>
> I have a qustion about a small freebsd 4.3 box i run.
> I don't want users looking in other users /home/someuser and browsing
> around. im not sure what chmod /home to denie browsing of /home
>
> Any ideas?
>
> help, i caught one user already robbing files from
> some other users folder. it was jpegs but still... :(
/home needs to be 755. Otherwise people can't get to their home
directories. Each *user* needs to have their home director set to 700,
so that only the *user* has full access rignts to it. In most cases:
# chmod 700 /home/*
will do it. YMMV depending on your local system setup.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
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