Hi In one of my moments last night I thought, why should any of the files in my home directory need to be world-accessible? I didn't think long about it before I decided to remove all read, write and execute rights for world. Before I did that, however (and thank god for that), I saved all the existing permissions to a file:
$ find /home/username/ -xdev -printf "%m %p\n" > permissions.txt Then: $ sudo chmod o-rwx /home/username/* $ sudo chmod o-rwx /home/username/.* After that, all hell broke lose. I couldn't start any new KDE application, existing applications complained about insufficient rights, no temporary or session files could be written etc. I couldn't even access my home directory after I restarted. Luckily I was able to restore all previous file permissions with the saved file and got back into my user account this morning. So, lesson learned. Don't mess with things you don't need to mess with, make backups, and be less paranoid. :) I think it was the fact that /home lost all world-permissions that caused all the problems. Would you agree? Secondly, by calling chmod with sudo, all the files owned by root that I as a user needed to see were now invisible. But they don't seem to be so many so I am wondering if that had any influence. Should I simply leave the .* files in my home directory alone? :) I acually found some that had 777 permissions which I didn't like. All my documents are 750 or less and the umask is set to 027. Is that ok for security? Best regards Olle Eriksson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
