On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Theresa Kehoe<[email protected]> wrote: > 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?
Dunno. And I'm not too concerned about my top-level folder so I haven't paid attention to this, either. > 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? chmod will tweak that for an existing user: $ sudo chmod go-rwx /home/[user] For new users, there's some default file or folder, probably /etc/skel, that needs to be chmod'ed so that by default their permission is to deny others. However, that will break public sharing of personal folders, e.g. ~/Public. Regards, - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
