Re: Lesson learned / file permissions

From: Olle Eriksson (pt00oer_at_student.bth.se)
Date: 10/20/04

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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:19:22 +0200

    On Wednesday 20 October 2004 13.27, Andreas Janssen wrote:
    > Olle Eriksson (<pt00oer@student.bth.se>) wrote:
    > > $ sudo chmod o-rwx /home/username/*
    > > $ sudo chmod o-rwx /home/username/.*
    >
    > All files in your /home should be yours, so it should be sufficient to
    > run chmod as a user. BTW, you are lucky you didn't run the second chmod
    > with the -R option, like I did a while ago. .* also includes ..

    Oh but actually I did. :) I just found out. Luckily the other directories
    in /home are not critical and rather small, so it was no big problem to
    fix them.

    > Aha. So there are files in your home folder, that you need, and that
    > are owned by root? Why? I guess the problem is that they belonged to
    > root. With the restrictive permissions, you could not access them. The
    > change I would make is not to make them world-readable. Instead use
    > chown to change the owner from root to olle.

    I found out why. See my other post.

    Thanks
    Olle 

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