Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 18:21:12 -0400 From: "Dave" <north1@nexicom.com> To: "Jonathan Chen" <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: home chmod Message-ID: <000b01c13659$12ca4680$0100a8c0@north1> References: <001501c13651$8627f120$0100a8c0@north1> <20010906092609.B58264@itouchnz.itouch>
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The problem now is, no one can access users home pages. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Chen" <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> To: "Dave" <north1@nexicom.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 5:26 PM Subject: Re: home chmod > 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> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > "Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck" - Curly > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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