creating user + setting rights

[racman]

Hi! Can somebody teach me how can I create new users and set their rights only to reading, writing to their new local /home/newuser/ directory?

Please help me, Grega, Smart duck

[Fenyx]

Re: creating user + setting rights

You can use the GUI tool in System Settings -> User Management to create a new user. It automatically creates the correct /home directory and groups for the new user.

By default, any file that a user creates will have these set of permissions:

Owner can read and write (u+rw)
Group owner can read (g+r)
Others can read (o+r)

Any folder that is created will have these permissions:
Owner can read, write, and execute (u+rwx)
Group can read and execute (g+rx)
Others can read and execute (o+rx)

Note that a folder must be executable if you want to be able to cd/go into that directory. Files are not executable by default when created.