[nflug] Permission Question

[Richard Hubbard]

Frank Kumro wrote:

>This is a very simple question but right now its not coming to me. How
>can I make it so other users cannot even view my homedir? let alone
>write/delete
>--
>Frank
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assuming your homedir is named /home/frank,
chmod 700 /home/frank
is the numbers method
chmod  go-rw /home/frank
is the 'abbreviation' method,
the first sets the permissions as rwx------ no matter what is there 
already. the second takes away the rw bits from group (g) ad others (o).

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