User privacy
Robert Heller
heller at deepsoft.com
Tue Feb 16 16:55:35 UTC 2021
At Tue, 16 Feb 2021 15:52:43 +0100 "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
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> 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
Actually any user can do this to any file or directory that they own. And I
guess this can also be done with the GUI File Manager.
>
> Bye,Volker
>
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