On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 09:49 -0500, Robert Citek 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]
Or, use Nautilus and set the permissions on your own /home directory so that others have no access. Only glitch with that was, when I tested it on my own /home directory, after rebooting, I got this error message: "User's $HOME/.dmrc file is being ignored. This prevents the default session and language from being saved. File should be owned by user and have 644 permissions. User's $HOME directory must be owned by user and not writable by other users." Umm, that's what I thought I was changing via Nautilus - great! Fix was: chmod 644 .dmrc chmod 700 ~ And after that, when I tried setting properties of test users /home via Nautilus, everything worked correctly. Still not sure why I got the "oops" in the first place (older migrated account, not newly-created one). But it seems to work for all accounts on the system, meaning it would be a whole lot easier to teach a newbie how to use a GUI tool to fix permissions rather than running commands via the terminal and editing system config files. But it still doesn't solve the "how to set it up this way from the beginning" question. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
