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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
> 


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