On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Ken Russell wrote:
> I have taken over administration of a Linux box and have a few questions
> I'm hoping someone can help me with:
>
> There are many users in the current home directory. It would be nice to
> move them into dirctories that fit the catagories they fit in (basically
> different classes). If I move users into directories within the home
> directory, will anything be screwed-up? Will they still be able to log on,
> retrieve mail, and have their Web pages work? Should all the users be in
> one big directory instead?
Tio move the home directory of a user : first move the actual directory,
then change the entry for that user in /etc/passwd . All services like
web,mail ... get their info from /etc/paswd, so that should work.
>
> What file permissions are normally set for users? When I add user I get:
>
> drwxrwxr-x
>
> The machine I inheritted must be set up to give these permissions. Should I
> have something more like:
>
> drwxr-xr-x, or
>
> drwx--x--x ?
>
Depends on your users : are they a team, or don't they have anything to do
with eachother ?
> There probably is a file that I can edit that acts as a template for
> setting file permissions when doing "adduser".
>
> Thanks for help anyone can give me in this "setting up accounts" area. I
> really appreciate the spirit of cooperation and support that exists in the
> Linux community, and the time people give to answer questions from clueless
> people like me!
>
> -Ken
>
Frank
