On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 01:03:57PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
| On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 12:07:33PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
| > It seems natural to me that my home dir is my own private property.
| > Kind of like having your own room or a clubhouse as a kid, with a sign
| > "Keep Out" on the door. Ma
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 12:07:33PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
> It seems natural to me that my home dir is my own private property.
> Kind of like having your own room or a clubhouse as a kid, with a sign
> "Keep Out" on the door. Making it world readable seems like leaving
> the door open, then wonderin
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 07:44:32AM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote:
| On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 11:14:35PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
| > On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:17:52PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
| > | On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 01:11:49PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
| > | > By "make my machine download things" do yo
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 11:14:35PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:17:52PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> | On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 01:11:49PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
> | > By "make my machine download things" do you mean that he logs in and
> | > uses ftp or a web browser? If so, then
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 06:03:06PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:
> one of the packages asks whether you want world readable user home
> dirs, forgot which one (probably the one that contains adduser).
yes its the adduser package, but it only does that in woody and
sid. potato's does not have this o
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 11:14:35PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:17:52PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> | On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 01:11:49PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
> | > By "make my machine download things" do you mean that he logs in and
> | > uses ftp or a web browser? If so, then
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:17:52PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
| On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 01:11:49PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
| > By "make my machine download things" do you mean that he logs in and
| > uses ftp or a web browser? If so, then he ought to be downloading the
| > stuff into his own home dire
Ethan Benson wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 01:11:49PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
> > By "make my machine download things" do you mean that he logs in and
> > uses ftp or a web browser? If so, then he ought to be downloading the
> > stuff into his own home directory. By default (and quite naturally
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, D-Man wrote:
> Cool. It is already fixed.
>
> (a moment later)
> # dpkg-reconfigure --frontend=text adduser
> debconf: package "adduser" is not installed or does not use debconf
>
> | $ dpkg --status adduser | grep -i version
> | Version: 3.37
>
> # dpkg --status adduser |
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 01:11:49PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
> By "make my machine download things" do you mean that he logs in and
> uses ftp or a web browser? If so, then he ought to be downloading the
> stuff into his own home directory. By default (and quite naturally)
> users _can't_ see someone e
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 05:46:09PM +0200, Auke van der Gaast wrote:
> 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 access
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 11:23:36AM -0700, Dave Carrigan wrote:
| D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|
| > Home dirs should have "711" as the permissions (owner
| > read-write-execute group and world execute only). I just checked on
| > my system (I am really the only user right now) and the perms
D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Home dirs should have "711" as the permissions (owner
> read-write-execute group and world execute only). I just checked on
> my system (I am really the only user right now) and the perms are 755
> (actually I'm not sure what the 's' in the 010 column is (group
also sprach D-Man (on Wed, 13 Jun 2001 01:47:35PM -0400):
> Home dirs should have "711" as the permissions (owner
> read-write-execute group and world execute only). I just checked on
> my system (I am really the only user right now) and the perms are 755
> (actually I'm not sure what the 's' in t
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 07:39:21PM +0200, Auke van der Gaast wrote:
| >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 kn
>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
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 05:46:09PM +0200, Auke van der Gaast wrote:
| 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 access
also sprach Auke van der Gaast (on Wed, 13 Jun 2001 05:04:53PM +0200):
> I only want to give people access through FTP. Maybe it's a good
> idea to give them access to the FTP folders of others too, but I
> don't want them browsing through the whole harddisk. They only need
> to be able to retreive
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
> also sprach ANDREW PERRIN (on Wed, 13 Jun 2001
> 10:48:29AM -0400):
> > chmod o-rwx /
> > chmod o-rwx /home
> > chgrp root /
> > chgrp root /home
>
> at which point you won't be able to access even your
> homedirectory
[snip]
> consider again. *why* do you want to do this?
Sounds like a seriou
also sprach ANDREW PERRIN (on Wed, 13 Jun 2001 10:48:29AM -0400):
> chmod o-rwx /
> chmod o-rwx /home
> chgrp root /
> chgrp root /home
at which point you won't be able to access even your homedirectory
anymore. na, you need the x right on directories higher up the
hierarchy from where you want to
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