Hi All,
My laptop (pI, 133) has mandrake 7 installed on it. During fiddling with it, it
happens that I cannot retrieve control over it and I'm forced to use the reset button.
Nothing strange as I'm very good at trashing it.
After reboot, mandrake starts a security-script checking permissions and ports. As
I'm just a newbie, I just let it happen. But sometimes it finds that files and
directorys are 'world-writeable', and it changes permissions back to 'root'. Very
secure,
but sometimes I'm having difficulties restoring the permissons back to usual. Now;
permissions for /home and /home/user1, /home/user2 etc are incorrect as the users
cannot change to /home.
Can anybody give me the 'standard' permissions of /home, /home/user1, /home/user2
etc? Why are the permissions changed that a user cannot change to /home but he can
change to / or to his own directory, as long as he remembers the whole path?
ie:
cd /
cd /home
cd /user1
--> does not work, access denied in after cd /home
cd /
cd /home/user1
--> does work...
Thanks for clearifying this to me and for helping me gettig permissions back...
David.
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