From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 15 21:19:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sasknow.com (h139-142-245-96.ss.fiberone.net [139.142.245.96]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 100E14727 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 21:19:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (freebsd@localhost) by sasknow.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA66189; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 23:20:43 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from freebsd@sasknow.com) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 23:20:43 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson To: Bharat Mediratta Cc: R Joseph Wright , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: user account gone awry In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Bharat Mediratta wrote: > 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 Ha! Yes... I should have seen that ;-) <** Laughs at self **> -- Ryan Thompson 50% Owner, Sysadmin SaskNow Technologies http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E Saskatoon, SK S7H 0W2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message