Big Hole

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Mon Feb 7 19:45:42 UTC 2005


On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 07:33:11PM +0000, baza wrote:
> I think I've found a security hole in my Hoary box.
> 
> Without changing any of the default permissions a user on a multi-user 
> box can see the files in an other persons Home directory????

That's a feature, not a bug. (It's awkward for users to share files
otherwise, which is a frequent use of a multi-user box.) If you want a
private directory inside which other users can't see, use 'chmod o-rwx'
to make other users have no permissions on it.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]




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