Ram,
Umask determines the permissions with which files and folders are
created when users create them. With the default umask of 022, group
members and others will have read access to files and folders created.
In case of folders, there will also be the execute permission (means
folder browse)
When you set a umask of higher restriction, the default permissions of
files and folders created are more restrictive.
However, a user may change the permissions on the files / folders she
creates so that others have access to it.
Regards,
Ramachandra
On 11/09/2011 12:09 PM, Ramnarayan.K wrote:
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Onkar Shinde <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Perhaps you are approaching the problem in wrong way. If the only
thing you want to achieve is restrict the new user from accessing
other users' home directories then you should check the umask. I
believe the default is 0022 which allows other users to read files and
list contents of directories.
Seems you have got us on the right track
You can either change the default umask in /etc/profile or with the
appropriate mount options of the partition where /home is present (if
on separate partition). The sensible default in your case will be 0077
(or a bit less restrictive 0066).
so i have see the file /etc/profile
the last line is umask 0022
but is this for any user or all users - am supposing that /etc/foo
will be coming to all users
so if i change it what exactly happens ??
@ Ramachandra - saw the chroot thingy am not sure that it would work -
seems a bit complicated to implement
thanks
ram
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