On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 09:49 -0500, Robert Citek wrote: > [...] > > 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.
So how to configure a new Ubuntu computer, such that, as all future users are added, the default behavior will be to keep $HOME private to [user], without breaking other things? Theresa --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
