On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Robert Citek<[email protected]> wrote: > 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]
And then there's changing the umask in /etc/profile to 0027 (or umask -S u=rwx,g=rx,o= ) 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
