Locking dirs so only the owner can access them
 

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

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.

the command would be .....roots home dir should already be accessible to root only!!

to change the users dir

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

man chmod