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Your Home file permissions

Submitted by ggarron on Thu, 02/08/2007 - 03:11.
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How to make your $HOME directory only for your eyes.

# make directories only viewable by you:
$find $HOME -type d -exec chmod 700 '{}' \;

# make regular files only viewable and editable by you:
$find $HOME -type f -exec chmod 600 '{}' \;

Thanks to:

Stephen R. Laniel
Cell: +(617) 308-5571
http://laniels.org/

for this tip. 

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