Re: Making /home not accessible by outsiders

2002-05-30 Thread Pollywog
On Thu, 30 May 2002 17:16:43 -0400 "Wayne Topa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now all you have to do is remember to limit your posts to 72 or so > columns. > > Would have thought that after all these years you would remember > that! I just installed Sylpheed and had the setting at 70 columns, so

Re: Making /home not accessible by outsiders

2002-05-30 Thread Wayne Topa
Pollywog([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Thu, 30 May 2002 13:38:14 -0500 > "dman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > | I had my home directory o-r but sometimes certain programs could not > > | read my user config files, so I had to make my /home/user directory > > | o+r I had th

Re: Making /home not accessible by outsiders

2002-05-30 Thread Pollywog
On Thu, 30 May 2002 13:38:14 -0500 "dman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | I had my home directory o-r but sometimes certain programs could not > | read my user config files, so I had to make my /home/user directory > | o+r I had this problem with Procmail after installing Cyrus; it > | could not

Re: Making /home not accessible by outsiders

2002-05-30 Thread dman
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 03:32:37PM +, Pollywog wrote: | On Thu, 30 May 2002 09:28:34 -0500 | "dman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | > To fix existing home directories, if they are all in /home/, | > | > chmod o-r /home/* Oops, I forgot that the 'adduser' option sets the directories group-

Re: Making /home not accessible by outsiders

2002-05-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 03:32:37PM +, Pollywog wrote: > On Thu, 30 May 2002 09:28:34 -0500 > "dman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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

Re: Making /home not accessible by outsiders

2002-05-30 Thread Pollywog
On Thu, 30 May 2002 09:28:34 -0500 "dman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. >

Re: Making /home not accessible by outsiders

2002-05-30 Thread dman
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

Re: Making /home not accessible by outsiders

2002-05-30 Thread Anders Arnholm
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 05:38:29AM -0400, ThanhVu Nguyen wrote: > default). Now I changed my mind, because even /root is readable by > others ... I just wonder what kind of infromatiosn does you have in /root that is secret and has any value in hiding. I only have som standard .profile, .ssh/kno

Re: Making /home not accessible by outsiders

2002-05-30 Thread Colin Watson
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

Making /home not accessible by outsiders

2002-05-30 Thread ThanhVu Nguyen
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 ? Or may