Re: Re: [Nolug] Can't access user accounts

Thanks. I think 775 is o.k. Only one other person occasionally uses this system and is 99% of the time the only other person on the premises. The individual user directories are still owned by them. I worry more about invaders from the net, but having Linux set to reject incoming calls takes care of that, I guess.

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From: Joey Kelly <joey@joeykelly.net>
Date: 2003/08/18 Mon PM 03:02:20 EDT
To: nolug@joeykelly.net
Subject: Re: Re: [Nolug] Can't access user accounts

<snip>
>On further exploration, I found that /home was locked to all but root. I ran
> chmod 777 /home and now can get into my own directory. The question now is
> whether 777 is what it SHOULD be. If so, I wonder how it got changed?
<snip>

I'm thinking chmod isn't what you want... each user's directory in /home
should be owned by that user and the appropriate group. Use "chown -R
$user:$group /home/$user" to set it (picking the right values for $user and
$group, of course). The "-R" flag means recursive.

Once you've done that, you might have to chmod everything in your home
directory to match your umask (default file creation mask). Log in as your
regular user and run "umask", which will give you your file creation mask, or
the normal permissions, bitwise subtracted from 777 (this is called a
"complement"). Normally your umask is 022, so any files you create would have
the permissions 755 (well, mostly... any regular file wouldn't have the
execute bit set, but I digress...). If you need to set the permissions in
your directory, use "chmod -R 644 /home/$user". Any directories will
automatically be set to execute. The only problem you'll have is if you have
any programs or shell scripts, etc. that need to be set executable.

/home itself should be owned by root, by the way.

-- 
Joey Kelly
< Minister of the Gospel | Computer Networking Consultant >
http://joeykelly.net
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
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