On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Lee Glidewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sunday 20 April 2008 07:33:33 pm Owen Townend wrote: > > On 21/04/2008, Dylan Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >What should the permissions of the files in my home directory be? > > Hey, > > The default is 755 though it is common to use 750 for a little > privacy. > > IIRC the warning displays if you have the write bit set for anyone but > > you. > This is true. The only question I have is whether the script modified the > permissions recursively, in which case the warnings would be explained. > Many > of the hidden config files in the user's home root are supposed to be 644 > or > 600. In some cases, wrong permissions on those files can all but brick the > account. > The thing is, I'm not actually sure what happened. I guess I'll try not to mess with permissions too much since everything is at least working.
