[CLUE-Tech] I just don't understand it

[David Jackson]

Ed --
You missed Joe's problem, he see the perm to say 755 and the Mandrake
changes them back to say 750? Which as someone else suggested (beside myself)
a cron job is running to change perms as a secruity practice.

David

> On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 14:08, Joe Linux wrote:
>> After a great deal of time consuming effort, I thought I had the 
>> Mandrake permissions problem solved, but now they have come back as 
>> before -
>> 755.  It seems rather odd to me that on a multi-user system that one 
>> user can peer into another users files, and you can't do anything to 
>> stop it.
>> Mandrake Linux is like a glass house with no window shades.
> 
> 
> No, its most certainly not a "glass house" as you describe.
> 
> What exactly are you trying to do?
> 
> If you want to make a particular directory (or even an entire home
> directory and all its contents) private, then its very easy.  Just use:
> 
>  chmod 700 /home/user_name/dir_to_make_private
> 
> or
> 
>  chmod 700 /home/user_name
> 
> and you're done.
> 
> If this gives you problems, then things to check are:
> 
>  (1) What kind of filesystem are you using?  If you're using some 
>      kind of MS FAT filesystem then this may not work since (AFAIK) 
>      some FAT filesystems do not fully support Unix-style (POSIX) 
>      permissions.  And if thats the case, then shame on *you* for 
>      choosing to use a non-Unix filesystem and then demanding that  it
>      support POSIX permissions.
> 
>  (2) Mount point:  If the directory that you are trying to alter 
>      the permissions on is itself a mount point for a file system, 
>      then read "man chmod" and "man mount" for the details 
>      (permissions are set at mount time).
> 
> If you have more questions about chmod for the group, then I suggest
> you provide a more exact description of what you're trying to
> accomplish and *exactly* what commands you're using.
> 
> hth,
> Ed
> 
> 
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