How can I fix this Permissions problem?

M$ISBS · 09-07-2006, 01:36 AM

Mysteriously one user can all of a sudden see everything in anothers. I tried to fix it with chmod but i ended up not being able to log in at all so I changed it back.
How do I make it so users cannot access each others folders?
I am the only person using this computer and I have no idea how this happend.

Slack 10.2, KDE 3.5.3, Firefox

Thanks.

odcheck · 09-07-2006, 01:42 AM

maybe the user that can see everything is in a group that is allowed to do so.
chmod o+rxw /folder or file for e.g. changes the permission for others to allow read, write and execute.
chown is the command to specify someone particular for a file
can you be a little bit precise for who you want access to what?

M$ISBS · 09-07-2006, 01:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by odcheck

maybe the user that can see everything is in a group that is allowed to do so.
chmod o+rxw /folder or file for e.g. changes the permission for others to allow read, write and execute.
chown is the command to specify someone particular for a file
can you be a little bit precise for who you want access to what?

I just it so no one can access or see anyone elses files. I dont know about groups. It used to be that in kde there was a lock over the folders but it is gone now.

M$ISBS · 09-07-2006, 02:12 AM

I really screwed things up now. I changed something in KDE user settings for group and now I cannot access one user in KDE, it just starts up as a console.......

M$ISBS · 09-07-2006, 02:26 AM

Both users are in the users group but one can see the others files and can change them, I would like to prevent that.

M$ISBS · 09-07-2006, 06:52 PM

Anyone have any idea?