Locking dirs so only the owner can access them

colabus · 08-14-2004, 11:16 PM

Howdy guys,

I noticed the machines that i'm using at school have it so only the root user can access the root dir. I like that idea and was wondering how you go about setting it. But not only the root dir, what about other users?

Thanks

frob23 · 08-14-2004, 11:55 PM

This is not wise to do for certain directories (example /usr and company).

But just chmod -R go-rwx /home/usrname

And then only the user will be able to read, write, or cd into their directories.

320mb · 08-14-2004, 11:57 PM

the command would be .....

Code:

chmod

roots home dir should already be accessible to root only!!

to change the users dir

Code:

chmod 700 /home/<user>

<edit/> read the man page first ,before you goof around with
chmod............

man chmod