please see the correction i made to my post
above...
the proper way to achive privacy between users is with:
this way you can rest assured that only the owner of the home folder will be able to read/write/enter it...
Quote:
Originally Posted by Schreiberling
It would be too risky for me to change access rights of many folders because it can be difficult undoing that.
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no way, it's very easy to undo this... just set the perms back to the usual 755, like:
and then everyone can snoop around everyone else's private stuff again...
BTW, keep in mind that you could also
specify which user is the one you don't want to have his privacy violated, like:
Code:
chmod 700 /home/schreiberling
now nobody will be able to snoop on user
schreiberling, while the permissions for the other users' home folders remain untouched...