FTP/User access, was: Re: [users] Re: Why can't I?

2001-06-13 Thread Auke van der Gaast
>By default (and quite naturally) > users _can't_ see someone else's home directory unless that person > explicitly makes it readable. Well, maybe that's the problem... because they _can_ see others' homedir, don't know why, but it's true. I've used adduser to create the users. Thought that shou

Re: [users] Re: Why can't I?

2001-06-13 Thread Auke van der Gaast
Well, not really, or maybe a bit. I just wouldn't like, for instance, the homedir of my little brother, (who can make my machine download things, since I have cable and he has 'only' a 56k modem connection.) to be accessible to colleagues. Kind of a privacy issue for others, not my own, becau

Why can't I?

2001-06-13 Thread Auke van der Gaast
e already wasted half a day on just that, I'd really appreciate it if anyone could tell me what to do. Thank you in advance, Auke van der Gaast.