Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1639 mails)

[Roman <rbtc1@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Anders Johansson wrote:
> On Thursday 26 February 2009 22:50:55 Roman wrote:
>   
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I created two different users.  How is it that I am able to view and
> > copy files using Dolphin from another user directory to my directory? I
> > shouldn't be able to see the other user's directory.
> >
> > I'm using  openSUSE 11.1.
> >     
>
> The default permissions on a user's home directory are rwxr-xr-x, which means 
> that only the owner is allowed to write to it, but everyone else (who can log 
> in at all) can read the directory and cd to it.
>
> If you want to change this, simply do
>
> chmod 700 /home/<username>
>
> for each of the users. To make it the default for newly created users, start 
> yast and go to security and users -> user and group management, and go to the 
> "defaults for new users" tab, and change the value for "umask for home 
> directory" to 077
>
> Anders
>   
After following the steps, I am prompted for a password when logging
out. Any idea how to resolve this using systemconfig?


Cheers!

Roman

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