On Jul 31, 2009, at 10:15 AM, Theresa Kehoe wrote: > > 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?
That's what /etc/skel is for. You'll need to chmod things in there, and then, when users are added, those new permissions will be used. Scott -- R. Scott Granneman [email protected] ~ www.granneman.com Full list of publications @ http://www.granneman.com/publications My new book: Google Apps Deciphered @ http://www.granneman.com/books "I don't necessarily agree with everything I say." ---Marshall McLuhan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
