Re: Correct permission for home directory

2013-07-14 Thread James Hogarth
I'd be wondering what 'g=,o=' actually does. You may want chmod u+rwx,go-rwx /home/psmith and you probably do *not* want to set all files in /home/psmith to be executable for their owner like you set them with '-R u=x'. Indeed the better option is chmod -R u=rwX,go-rwx /home/psmith ...

Re: Correct permission for home directory

2013-07-14 Thread Junk
On 14 Jul 2013, at 02:24, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: Paul Smith phh...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 3:47 PM, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: chmod 755 /home But what about /home/psmith It depends on what you want. There is some tradition that home directories

Correct permission for home directory

2013-07-13 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All, I was playing with the permissions of /home /home/psmith because of the issue reported in previous posts. Could someone please tell me the commands to restore the correct permissions to those both directories? In previous posts, some people recommended chmod 755 /home But what

Re: Correct permission for home directory

2013-07-13 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 3:47 PM, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: chmod 755 /home But what about /home/psmith It depends on what you want. There is some tradition that home directories are readable for everyone and writable for their owners only. It may be a good idea to make them

Re: Correct permission for home directory

2013-07-13 Thread lee
Paul Smith phh...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 3:47 PM, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: chmod 755 /home But what about /home/psmith It depends on what you want. There is some tradition that home directories are readable for everyone and writable for their owners only. It