Setting up Ubuntu for a friend, who wants a second account created for
her boyfriend ... she wanted reassurance that he would not be able to
browse her documents.

I know Debian would always not let browsers even peek into other users
home directories, giving the ole "you don't have permissions to view"
message.

However, evidently Ubuntu will happily let any user browse other users'
home directories and contents!!

I created two new test accounts to try this, making one a "desktop" user
and the other "unprivileged".  In both cases, logged in as that user, I
could browse my own home directory, open and read documents, view
images, etc.

I tested this on Ubuntu 8.04 and Ubuntu 9.04 both.

I admit I've never really looked at this before, as no one else uses my
computer.  But how long has this been default behavior in Ubuntu?  How
can the settings be tweaked so that /home/[user] is kept private to
[user], so that no other users can browse /home/[user] directory?

Theresa


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