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Old 29-09-2009
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Preventing unauthorized data sharing

Hi Guys,
I am using a workstation. There are three users that share that PC, each having its login and password. I want to know how to stop user reading the home directory of another user.
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Old 29-09-2009
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Re: Preventing unauthorized data sharing

Hi friends,
You can prevent this by making each of their directories read ,write,ececutable only by their user.

Code do this is:
chmod 707 <home dir>

Using this only root and owner of the home directory read,write,execute.
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Re: Preventing unauthorized data sharing

Hi Guys,
You can also do that by setting each user's directory permissions to 700 so that only the user can access it.

Code:
mv /home/user1 /home/.user1

mkdir /home/user1
chown root:user1 /home/user1
chmod 750 /home/user1

mv /home/.user1 /home/user1/user1
Then edit the passwd file and make user1's home directory /home/user1/user1. The user can now do whatever he likes to his home. No one else will even be able to see it.
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