User home directories mode

[Muhammad Fakharuddin]

Hi,i would like to set a user home directories mode.what is the correct mode to assign?is that 750 or 751?How am i going to set that?

[Raj D.]

Muhammad,
It depends on your requirement, you can normally assign 755 mode, or 750.

Cheers, and dont forget to assign points at end.
Raj.

[Muhammad Fakharuddin]

How am i going to set that in user home directories?

[Steven Schweda]

> [...] How am i going to set that?

man chmod

What, exactly, is the mystery?

[Tor-Arne Nostdal]

If you have a problem with understanding what the mode numbers assign of rights... you could use the chmod command like this:

chmod u+rwx,g+rx-w,o-rwx ~{username}

In this example I give the user all rights (7), the group reaad and execute (5) and all others no rights (0) on the home directory to {username}

... but as Steven pinpointed... reading the manual is normally a good place to start ;)

/Tor-Arne