Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:
On 07/07/2014 11:01 AM, Anton Aylward pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
On 07/07/2014 10:57 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
Before C left us he asked the question about how to clean up the 'temp' directories which, in his case, consumed a large volume of his disk space. This problem was solved.
But, what - if anything - cleans out, or should clean out, the /.thumbnails directory in /home?
I had forgotten about this until just now and when I looked in this directory it was 23MB big - so, using mc, I deleted the contents (which is what I did in the past).
But is there some automatic way of clearing this directory?
Why would you want to do that?
[...] And whoever has access to your /home directory
What's that again? I thought we were running Linux not Windows.
Just look at the perms of your home dir, you'll find them to be "drwxr-xr-x" meaning everyone and their brother can access you home dir and most of it's contents. I objected to this setting believing it should be "drwx------" to keep everyone but root out completely and was told for all practical matters to "go fly a kite" as everyone should be able to "see" everyone else's home dir and files in it. And yes having read and execute access (via the world setting) you can go into someone's home folder without problem. And if any files have read access (again via the world settings) you can look at and copy anyone's files to your home folder. All you have to do is look at all of your files and folders and see which have "-rwx-r-xr-x" for files and "drwxr-xr-x" for folders. For single user system not much of a problem BUT once you allow multiple people to login to the same machine be careful, very careful.
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