Re: chmod, or better solutions ?

John Hasler wrote:
Shams Fantar writes:

My purpose beeing that local users can't access/read any file which isn't
in their own home directory.


Then they would not be able to run any programs. What are you trying to
achieve? You can easily arrange for them not to be able to access each
other's files.


Just to complement, even if you give access to /bin, /usr/bin and other
places where there are programs, these programs may need other files to
work, sometimes even system files. The innocent 'ls', for example, needs
access to /etc/passwd in order to map numerical user ids to their names
in long listings.


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