[wellylug] /home/$user permissions

David Murray newslists at electronincantation.net.nz
Wed Mar 15 15:21:56 NZDT 2006


On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Ian Beardslee wrote:

> ... what are the correct/recommended owner and permissions for the /home
> directory?

Owner: root
Group: root
permissions: drwer--r--


> ... what are the correct/recommended owner and permissions for the user
> directory in /home?

Owner: $user
Group: $user
Permissions drwer--r-- unless you do not wish other users to view the 
contents of your directory, in which case permissions should be 
drwe------.


> ... and finally, what are the correct/recommended owner and permissions
> for the Lost&Found directory in /home?

Dunno. At a guess probably the same as for /home.


Hope that helps


Cheers

David Murray




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