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11-23-2004, 08:18 PM
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Registered: Jul 2004
Location: Rochester, NY
Distribution: Fedora9::FreeBSD7.1
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Permissions for /home
I think i did something wrong i was trying to set my /home/user/ permission and by minstake i didnt put / at end of user and set permission for my /home/ folder.
Could anyone tell me what it should be?
thanks
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11-23-2004, 08:34 PM
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Registered: Jan 2004
Location: Roughly 29.467N / 81.206W
Distribution: OpenBSD, Debian, FreeBSD
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drwxr-xr-x
That is what I have.
World readable, world executable, but [obivously] not world writable.
Oh... owned by root,wheel
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11-24-2004, 02:45 AM
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Registered: Jul 2004
Location: France
Distribution: Arch Linux
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In theory, it could even be drwx--x--x. That way, users can't see who is inside /home, appart from themselves.
Yves.
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