Hi Lawson,
Well, that was a typo... I'm familiar with ms-dos (v1.1) so I kind of know how to jump
around directories ;-).
I meant that a user could go from the root-dir to it's own userdir but not by changing
first to /home. If a user does a cd /home/user1 from the root everything goes well...
But before this, it was possible for users viewing /home. That is currently not
possible. Only if the user knows the entire path to its home-dir he can change to it...
Gnome and KDE-stuff is having difficulties letting the user to go up one level from
its own /home/user1-dir to another, because the acces is denied for /home. (like: when
xmms has to change from the /home/user1 to /mnt/cdrom/mp3, it has to pass /home)...
This was just to let everybody know the problems I got, after the security-scripts has
messed up the permissions. The only thing I would like to know is: what should be
'standard' permissions for /home and for /home/user1, /home/user2 etc... If there is
any 'standard' for this...
Thanks,
David.
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| Hi All,
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| 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
Of course it doesn't. Is there a directory named /user1? Is it not
named /home/user1? A path that starts with / is relative to the root of
the filesystem tree.
Try:
cd /home
cd ./user1
or cd /home
cd user1
|
| cd /
| cd /home/user1
| --> does work...
>What is mostly wrong with permissions is _nobody_ has permission to cd
>to a directory that doesn't exist.
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