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

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