Newbie here. I want to create a guest account on my system. I tried using the gui application, but when I opened it, it did not give me the option to create a new account, likely because I am not root. (I was not prompted for the sudo password like I thought I would be.) I then tried it using the sudo adduser command and was successful. However, when I login as the new account there seems to be no permissions enforcement as I can view my master account's directories and files.
Any ideas on how to fix this?
User Accounts Can View Each Other's Home Directory
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stoneheart
User Accounts Can View Each Other's Home Directory
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Fred
Re: User Accounts Can View Each Other's Home Directory
stoneheart,
Log in as username1 and open a terminal and type one line at a time and press enter: (Substitute your username for username1 and the second username for username2.)
sudo chown -R username1:username1 /home/username1
sudo chown -R username2:username2 /home/username2
sudo chmod -R 600 /home/username1
sudo chmod -R 600 /home/username2
Close terminal. Now neither user will be able to access the others /home folder.
Fred
Log in as username1 and open a terminal and type one line at a time and press enter: (Substitute your username for username1 and the second username for username2.)
sudo chown -R username1:username1 /home/username1
sudo chown -R username2:username2 /home/username2
sudo chmod -R 600 /home/username1
sudo chmod -R 600 /home/username2
Close terminal. Now neither user will be able to access the others /home folder.
Fred
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stoneheart
Re: User Accounts Can View Each Other's Home Directory
Thanks, Fred. These commands must change the permissions on the directories...Please indulge my curiosity, though... Is this the correct default behavior on setup of new accounts or is this a 'bug' in Mint/Ubuntu? If this is the correct behavior, it makes me wonder what the purpose of having separate accounts are.
Thanks again!
Thanks again!
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Fred
Re: User Accounts Can View Each Other's Home Directory
stoneheart,
I can't give you a good answer. The default permissions are set by the developers of the individual distros. In practice you will see various permission sets from one distro to another, and even between versions. I guess it depends on how the developers see the distro being used. As you can see file/folder ownership and permissions are easily set so it doesn't seem to be a big issue.
Fred
I can't give you a good answer. The default permissions are set by the developers of the individual distros. In practice you will see various permission sets from one distro to another, and even between versions. I guess it depends on how the developers see the distro being used. As you can see file/folder ownership and permissions are easily set so it doesn't seem to be a big issue.
Fred