User privacy

[Volker Wysk]

Hi

Am Dienstag, den 16.02.2021, 14:18 +0000 schrieb Ian Bruntlett:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm sorting out an existing Lubuntu 18.04 laptop for a mother and
> daughter. At the moment when I run umask I get the result "0002" which I
> believe means that different users can read each other's files in their
> $HOME directories. They want to stop each other from reading their files.
> 
> Now I have a rough idea on how to arrange this. I believe a different
> umask value has to be specified however I don't know:-
> * What value of umask to use
> * Where to set that value so that it is set as the default on
> bootup/login.

You don't need to touch the umask. Just delete the permissions for "others"
on the home directories:

chmod o-rwx /home/HOMEDIR1
chmod o-rwx /home/HOMEDIR2

Bye,Volker
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