Correct permission for home directory

[lee]

Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> writes:

> chmod 755 /home
>
> But what about
>
> /home/psmith

It depends on what you want.  There is some tradition that home
directories are readable for everyone and writable for their owners
only.  It may be a good idea to make them readable for their owners only
--- or a bad idea like when you're exporting directories in homes
through apache (which I think is a very bad idea).

In case you have users in groups that need to access someones home
directory, you may want to allow group access.  When you have convoluted
requirements, you may want to use ACLs to accomplish what you need ...


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