On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 05:38:29AM -0400, ThanhVu Nguyen wrote: | Hello during the installation I choose yes when the installer ask if I | want to make user directory accessible by other users (that was the | default). Now I changed my mind, because even /root is readable by | others ... | | is there a way to reverse what I have chosen ? reconfigure something ?
dpkg-reconfigure adduser
Note that this only affects new accounts created by adduser.
| Or may be a chmod command that would do the trick ?
To fix existing home directories, if they are all in /home/,
chmod o-r /home/*
Note that you want the directories *executable* so that apache (for
example) can "cd" to ~/public_html/ for serving user's pages.
-D
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