Disable viewing root directory for users

gellings · 04-10-2006, 05:51 AM

Hi,

I'm using Suse 10 with freeNX (Terminalserver)and i like to disable viewing the root maps for users.
They may only see the own home map and nothing else!
I'm using Sabayon tool and it works fine but i can't restrict "everything" for users. There are more tool to do this?, i wil like to hear about it, or a site were i can't find to manage userprofiles like grouppolicy in Windows.

THANKS A LOT.

Please send a Email s.gellings@zonnet.nl

burntfuse · 04-10-2006, 10:34 AM

If you don't want anyone but the root user to be able to read /root, open a terminal, and type this:

su
chmod 700 /root

This will set the permissions so the owner of the directory (in this case, the root user) can read, write, and execute from the directory (that's what the 7 is for), users in the group that owns the directory can't read, write, or execute (the first 0), and everyone else can't do anything with it either (the second 0).