-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 30 June 2003 10:31 am, Robert W. wrote: > On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 19:53, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > > For the first time I added a couple more users to my home system. Up > > 'til now I was the only user. I found that the default behavior/security > > (not) setting allowed all users to access all other user's home > > directories. No limits! What is this?! That is the same as no security [...] > 1) Mandrake Control Center > 2) Security > 3) Security Permissions > 4) Choose "editable" from the drop down box > 5) Add /home/* with the permissions you want. > > Next time msec runs, it will reset the permissions on the /home/* > directories. And you won't need the higher security level (with > shorewall).
Danka. This nonetheless begs the question...why should this even be necessary? By this I mean why should it be necessary to actively alter default settings so that all users don't have access to each other's home dirs? I am not really faulting Mandrake here (unless their defaut settings and perms are more lenient than other distro defaults. To my thinking, the default should never be to permit even read access to another's home. There's no call for that unless some <idiot> user decides to give other people access to his/her home dir. This accessibility should be a no-no by default regardless of distro. praedor - -- Not a single 9/11 terrorist came from Iraq, nor did a single one train in Iraq. Iraq had NOTHING to do with 9/11. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/AHdYaKr9sJYeTxgRAmMxAKCc4ZDXAVwk7tcvyB2mSRcofManzgCgp9Ti O7T4NI7YWKuDutQuU4ksuOQ= =XhHt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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