From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 15 21:14:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from menalto.com (m206-35.dsl.tsoft.com [198.144.206.35]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC675455B for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 21:14:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from firebrand (firebrand [10.0.0.7]) by menalto.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA01972; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 21:13:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bharat@menalto.com) From: "Bharat Mediratta" To: "Ryan Thompson" , "R Joseph Wright" Cc: Subject: RE: user account gone awry Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 21:13:20 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ryan Thompson says: > > On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, R Joseph Wright wrote: > > > > Also, if that first ls says permission denied, then the permissions on > > > /home or /usr/home are in question. Try ls -load /home instead. > > > > The permissions of /home are: > > lrwxrwxrwx root wheel > > Wow! It is generally a very Bad Idea to make /home world writeable. I > recommend permissions of 755 unless you have a VERY good reason > to do otherwise. (I can't think of one). Note the 'l' in the permissions -- it's a symlink. To see the actual permissions you have to follow the link. Try 'ls -Lload /home' -Bharat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message