locked out of home directory??

[Robert Brockway]

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, James Knott wrote:

> 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.

Hi James.  I respectfully disagree that this constitutes an absolute rule, 
which is whar your email seems to suggest.  As per my original post, there 
is room for various approaches.

It depends on the culture of the company, the needs of the users, the 
security of the information and other factors.  I think shared directories 
are fine when different people may be editing the file (but really there 
are better ways then).  If a user is the sole author of a document I'm not 
going to mandate they move it to a shared folder to allow others to read 
it.

Cheers,

Rob

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