Can I prevent users from seeing dir contents?

Jukas · 04-08-2005, 01:02 PM

Is there a way that I can prevent other users from seeing outsider directories?

For example if I have the following

/home/usera
/home/userb

Is there a way I can prevent userb from being able to change to /home/usera ? If not is there a way at least I can prevent userb from being able to any of the file contents in /home/usera/ ?

calcon · 04-08-2005, 01:06 PM

I believe you need to use chmod

calcon

masonm · 04-08-2005, 02:41 PM

Yep, just change permissions to allow only the owner of that directory to view it.

sirclif · 04-08-2005, 03:22 PM

the command to do that could be

chmod 700 /home/usera

which you would have to run as user a or root

Jukas · 04-08-2005, 04:07 PM

Thanks for the response all. I ended up doing it with chmod o= /home/usera

Is chmod 700 /home/usera the numerical equivilant?

btmiller · 04-08-2005, 07:56 PM

No, you'd need go= to get the equivalent of numeric 0700.