From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 15 21:21:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B22524511 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 21:21:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from nwlink.com (ip164.r3.d.bel.nwlink.com [207.202.172.164]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA03829; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 21:22:14 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <38AA32EA.F46A5F66@nwlink.com> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 21:17:30 -0800 From: R Joseph Wright X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bharat Mediratta Cc: Ryan Thompson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: user account gone awry References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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' The permissions of /usr/home are dr--r--r-- root wheel. How does one go about changing permissions on a directory anyhow? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message