Users can browse eachothers home folders?

[Ax.]

I got a problem, I made several users. One for me, one for my gf and one for guests. But I was able to enter my home-folder from the guest account. How to I fix so the guests can only reach his own?

[SiKing]

From the command line run:

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ls -l /home

(that's the lower-case ell, not a one) and post the results.

[Ax.]

Thanks for your reply!

Result:

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drwxr-xr-x 73 axax axax 4096 2010-02-09 20:52 axax
drwxr-xr-x 37 guest guest 4096 2010-02-10 03:42 guest
drwxr-xr-x 35 sanna sanna 4096 2010-02-09 16:15 sanna

[DrHu]

It easy in the GUI, simply go to your /home/folder name and turn off permissions for other and world groups to none (no access)
--now other users will not be able to enter/read your directory contents, I can't remember if they will be able to see the directory (folder) name for that user, I am thinking NOT!

For Linux Mint 7 main edition (Gnome desktop)
Mint menu>Home Folder>Go up one level (your user name)>Properties>Permissions>Change Group, Other to None

[Ax.]

Thanks! I got it sorted out.

Is there any way to make the account I call "guest" only have access to his own homefolder? So he can't browse the filesystem?

[SiKing]

It easy in the GUI, simply go to your /home/folder name and turn off permissions for other and world groups to none (no access)

I have often wondered why this is not done by default when creating a new user.

--now other users will not be able to enter/read your directory contents, I can't remember if they will be able to see the directory (folder) name for that user, I am thinking NOT!

Yes they will. This based on the r/w permission of the /home (parent) folder itself.