From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 5 15:47:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns5.eds.com (ns5.eds.com [203.17.185.230]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50E8E37B401 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 15:47:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nnsy.eds.com (nnsy-3.eds.com [192.168.1.1]) by ns5.eds.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f85MkXM24799; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 08:46:38 +1000 (EST) Received: from nnsy.eds.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nnsy.eds.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f85MkVV24922; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 08:46:31 +1000 (EST) Received: from ausym000.exau01.exch.eds.com ([134.251.177.117]) by nnsy.eds.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f85MkV624914; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 08:46:31 +1000 (EST) Received: by AUSYM000 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 08:46:11 +1000 Message-ID: <16649A8D5C73D51183B80008C728EEB7CC09AE@AUSYM103> From: "Pietralla, Siegfried P" To: "'Dave'" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: home chmod Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 08:47:01 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG dave, you need chmod 711 /home/* this will let anyone use the directory in a path to a file or directory that exists but won't let them do a ls for example. regards, siegfried. -----Original Message----- From: Dave [mailto:north1@nexicom.com] Sent: Thursday, 6 September 2001 08:40 To: The Psychotic Viper Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: home chmod Yes, but see, users homepages are not working now. becuase of all the chmoding. chmod 700 /home/* is what someone else suggested, but this is what caused homepages to not work. result = Forbidden You don't have permission to access /~north/can-on.pdf on this server. /home/someuser/public_html/* I tried chmod 755 /home/*/public_html/* but that did not work either. help... :o( ----- Original Message ----- From: "The Psychotic Viper" To: "Dave" Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 6:13 PM Subject: Re: home chmod > Hi, > > On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, 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 > chmod -R 700 /home would work:) > > Also an off topic question, you from Millbrook Ontario per chance?:) > > hth > PsyV > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message