locked out of home directory??

[Ian Petersen]

On 10/26/07, Giles Orr <gilesorr-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> "chmod 701 /home/user/" (or chmod o+x /home/user/") and "chmod -R 755
> /home/user/public_html/" (or "chmod -R go+rx /home/user/public_html/")
> should fix things.  Eh?  What this does is means that anyone can "cd"
> to user's home directory - but they can't see a damn thing.  They can
> "cd" into public_html where they have read and access rights, but they
> still have no access to your personal files or directories.

That's what I did, actually, which is why the RTFM was unexpected, I
guess.  I only mentioned the Apache thing because it's the only
application I've ever seen have a problem with home directories set to
700.

Oh well, I guess it was miscommunication.  Thanks for taking the time
to give me a verbose reply.

Ian

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