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
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