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Steve Cave
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 Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 1:27 am Post subject: [SOLVED] Private home directory |
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Hello! I would like to make my home directory private so that other users cannot see my files. Is the proper way to do this simply to change my home directory's permissions to 700? Will a private home directory break any programs? Thanks in advance!
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yabbadabbadont
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| Code: | /home/daffy $ l /home/
total 20
drwx------ 37 daffy users 4096 2009-01-14 19:50 daffy/
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 2008-12-18 14:51 lost+found/
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timeBandit
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| Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 1:58 am Post subject: |
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It's not a problem--in fact, I thought it was the default. Some things even require it. For example, unless configured otherwise, SSH denies login to users whose home directories are writable by others.
| Code: | bandit@rockchuck ~ $ ll -d /home/b*
drwx------ 36 bandit users 8192 2009-01-14 20:55 /home/bandit |
No trouble at all.
Edit: OK, I know I'm slow but there's no way that took me four minutes.... 
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Steve Cave
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| Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 2:02 am Post subject: Reply |
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| Ok, thank you both! |
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