$HOME/ permissions

[Guillermo Garron]

On 11/16/06, Stephen R Laniel <steve at laniels.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 07:04:49PM -0400, Guillermo Garron wrote:
> > so using the alt+ctrl+F1 I changed the permissions again to
> >
> > $sudo chmod 755 $HOME/ -R
> >
> > now all is working but i am wondering if my system is vulnerable
> > because of this.
> > will i have to reinstall all the ubuntu again?
>
> No, you will not have to reinstall all of Ubuntu. I think
> all you wanted to do was
>
> chown 700 $HOME
>
> which you don't need to sudo, because you're changing
> permissions on a directory that you own.
>
> Yes, your permissions are probably too lax now -- 755 is too
> high. It's impossible to guess what the permissions on your
> files ought to be, but it's a safe bet that the following
> commands will do what you want:
>
> * make directories only viewable by you:
> find $HOME -type d -exec chmod 700 '{}' \;
>
> * make regular files only viewable and editable by you:
> find $HOME -type f -exec chmod 600 '{}' \;
>
> That should do the trick.
thank you Stephen!

that really do a "trick" i am using linux for and only linux for 1 and
a half year, not counting one year in ' 97 and always find new
"tricks" it is amazing all the possibilities we have.

thanks again for teaching me another one!

Guillermo.

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Guillermo Garron
"Linux IS user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are."
(Using FC5, CentOS4.4 and Ubuntu 6.06)