locked out of home directory??

[James Knott]

Robert Brockway wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Zbigniew Koziol wrote:
>
>> It is not business of Group or Others to list your personal files.
>>
>> I am not sure if Linux programs take things enougth seriously. I would
>> think that personal home directory should have persmissions drwx------
>
> Really it is a personal choice.  A lot of people have world readable
> and searchable home directories (the "world" in this case being the
> system) while others restrict access.  It all depends on who the other
> users are and whether you trust them.  On a home fileserver you
> probably trust other family members to access your files (imagine how
> annoying it would be to call your wife from work to ask her to access
> a file for you only to be told she's getting access denied). 
> Similiarly in the work place other people in your group may need
> access to those files and maybe everyone on the system needs access. 
> You can always make subdirectories more restrictive if you need to.
>

While it may not be an issue in a home envireronment (my dog & cat
haven't shown much interest <g>), in a work environment, personal
directories shouldn't be available to all by default.  Shared group
files should be in a directory created for that purpose.


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