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  1. #1
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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.
    Thanks

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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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