rkhunter (rootkithunter) - 2

[albi at scii.nl]

On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 17:29:20 +0200
René L. Reingard <reingard at hispeed.ch> wrote:

> > normally i already do a chmod 700 /home/* during boot-up
> > also this looks pretty harmless
> 
> thank you for your response.
> what does this chmod do, or why you do it'

the chmod 700 /home/* makes all the users' home-dirs only
readable/writable/executable by the owners

traditionally there was the idea of making users share files through the
755 permissions on their home-dirs, this is a tradition that debian,
ubuntu and all kind of other linux-distributions have followed

i also like to do this on some "more public" machines :

chmod 700 /root
rm ~/.bash_history
ln -s /dev/null ~/.bash_history
rm ~/.ssh/known_hosts
ln -s /dev/null ~/.ssh/known_hosts