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


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