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servo888
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 12:41 am    Post subject: Preventing users from entering other users home directory? Reply with quote

For some reason normal users are able to surf to other users directories. IE user John can surf to /home/Frank. The user John only has read access - which isn't to big of a deal. But I've always though normal users didn't have read access to other users dir.

Any help?
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ckdake
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 12:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

how about just changing the permissions on them? can John see files in /home/Frank, or just cd into it? if they can cd into it, thats because they have execute (+x) access to the directory which is nessicary for public_html to be readable by apache (the quickest and most default way) and a few other things.
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