[thelist] linux: user / permission chaos

[Johnny Lam]

Joxn,

Hmmm... When you set the ".." in the directory /home/userfoo/ its actually
going one level down to /home/ and that's why its effecting the /home/sites/
directory. Try doing the chmod at /home/userfoo/ directory by doing a chmod
uo-rwx /home/userfoo/. I hope that helps.

-Johnny

-----Original Message-----
From: Joxn [mailto:joxn at vernum.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 8:21 AM
To: EVOLT
Subject: [thelist] linux: user / permission chaos


Hi,
I've got some chaos concerning the user / permission on our RedHat
server.

I want to lock a user in his homedir eg. /home/userfoo/

Our websites are in /home/sites/site01.com/ and so on.

/home is owned by root and set to "drwxr-xr-x" - this way the sites work
fine.

However, if I set ".." in /home/userfoo/ to "drwx------" I actually
change the setting of /home and the sites break, too.

So how can I lock a user in his homedir without breaking the sites?

TIA,
Joxn
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