[thelist] linux: user / permission chaos
Joxn
joxn at vernum.com
Thu Apr 19 12:04:26 CDT 2001
Johnny Lam wrote:
> You mean you don't want him to be browsing through your machine?
Yupp. Exactly that.
> It looks like the user "userfoo" does not have a home directory at
> /home/userfoo. Make sure its there. Also look in the /etc/passwd/ file and
> see where the userfoo is mapped to what directory and what bash file. My
> default shell is at "/bin/bash".
No, the user is working fine as long as I don't change the permissions
to "d---------" for his homedir. Which is quite logical as bash can't
write its history file and so on.
bye Joxn
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