User privacy

[Bret Busby]

On 16/02/2021, Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de> wrote:
> 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
>

Is it "others" or "group"?

I preferred it when it was numbers; the 777 system, so, for example,
chmod 007
.

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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