A simple chmod should fix it.

$ chmod 700 /home/user/Documents

That would keep others out of Documents, unless they know the exact  
file name.

Right?

Scott
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On Jul 31, 2009, at 9:35 AM, Theresa Kehoe wrote:

>
> 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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