Hi,
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Ismael Farfán Estrada wrote:
> Hi, I'm thinking on doing the same,
> I plan to change the owner of the desktop folder to root
> and put it to read only
>
> chown root /home/*/Desktop
> chmod 111 /home/*/Desktop
> (111 readonly?)
111 is execute only. 444 is read-only. You'll want 555 (r-x) though so
the user can traverse the directory and read it.
> > This is something they could undo, but I'm guessing you're just trying to
> > keep things tidy. If it's a security issue (?)
>
> If root is the owner, they can't "undo" anything
If ~user/Desktop is owned by root and ~user is owned by user, user can
delete the Desktop folder and recreate it with their own ownership.
This is because user has ownership of the parent directory.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ sudo mkdir tmp1
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ ls -la tmp1/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-01-21 15:12 .
drwxr-xr-x 55 gavin gavin 4096 2008-01-21 15:12 ..
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ rmdir tmp1
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ ls -la tmp1/
ls: tmp1/: No such file or directory
You could make the home directory owned by root, but that would probably
break a host of other things.
Gavin
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