Please don't take anything I write below literally. I don't administer any any multi-user systems. I just have some thoughts for you until someone else jumps in with some better information. You shouldn't take my advice without doing a bunch of research and experimentation on your own first. (I think that's why the others were trying to help by pointing you to the manpage.)
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Originally Posted by polpak
Calm after changed them to 700, yet wonder what other problems this may cause ?
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I don't really know of any problem it would cause. Maybe someone else could add more about that. Just understand that programs inherit permissions of the users who invoke them, although I think there are some special bits which can get around that.
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Are there standard settings for users in /home/(USERNAME) or do they vary between Distributions.
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I think they vary by distro, but I haven't spent much time on any distros outside Ubuntu recently. In any case you are free to administer and experiment with your system however you like.
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Am looking further into how can enable the /home/username/Public to be open, without opening everything else. on openSUSE 11.4 x86-64
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I don't know anything about openSUSE or your system, but here's a guess: First make symlinks to
/home/username/Public/ within the home folders of users you want to access it. Then:
Code:
chmod -R 'a+rw' /home/username/Public/
If that isn't good for you, then maybe create a new group, for example
pubusers. Then add all users you wish to grant access to that group. Then:
Code:
chown -R 'username:pubusers' /home/username/Public/
Again, please don't do any of those things above until you do your own research and experiments. Prove it to yourself, then you know.
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Official_documentation