I Toyed With Permissions, Now I Get An Error!

[soundchaser59]

What does this error mean, and what is it that I am not getting about permissions and controlling what other users can see?



I have created two other users, but I'm not getting how to set their permissions (using groups preferably) so they can only see their own folders and files. No matter what I do the other two users can still see my Administrator files. I want them to get "access denied" whenever they try to drill down into my home dir.

Any links you have are good. No need to type out a thesis explaining it here. I already know some fairly comprehensive basics about groups and rights in Windows, so the concepts are not new to me. Just the Linux way of doing it is foreign to me.

[soundchaser59]

I found a page explaining how to use a couple three commands......I did these three commands, and the error stopped, but now my machine seems to freeze unpredictably for a minute, then it continues working. It never did that before I messed with the permissions or before this error started.

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=166434

sudo chmod 644 ~/.dmrc
sudo chown <username> /home/<username>/.dmrc
sudo chmod 700 /home/<username>

(using my own username, of course)

[wizard10000]

Pretty sure permissions on your home directory are 755 by default. I'm not at a linux box where I can check, though. Perhaps someone else can take a look at their own machine?

[Rod J]

Yes, I can confirm that the home directory should have 755 permissions:

rod@K16-04:/home$ stat rod/
  File: 'rod/'
  Size: 678             Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: 2ch/44d Inode: 258         Links: 1
Access: ([B]0755[/B]/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: ( 1000/     rod)   Gid: ( 1000/     rod)
Access: 2016-10-06 13:05:01.432021637 +1300
Modify: 2016-10-06 11:30:27.209893491 +1300
Change: 2016-10-06 11:30:27.209893491 +1300
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[wizard10000]

Thanks, Rod - 'preciate it

[vinnywright]

I have created two other users, but I'm not getting how to set their permissions (using groups preferably) so they can only see their own folders and files. No matter what I do the other two users can still see my Administrator files. I want them to get "access denied" whenever they try to drill down into my home dir.

this is really easy ,,,,,,,, just go to /home and rite click your user folder click properties then the permissions tab ,,,in the access permissions section set "others" to forbidden.

VINNY

[soundchaser59]

this is really easy ,,,,,,,, just go to /home and rite click your user folder click properties then the permissions tab ,,,in the access permissions section set "others" to forbidden.

VINNY

I'm using Mint "Cinnamon (Sarah)" just to get acquainted with Linux, so......does that work in Mint? I don't recall seeing that option when I right clicked on my folder. I'll put up a screen shot later of what I see when I right click.

[GreyGeek]

I'm using Mint "Cinnamon (Sarah)" just to get acquainted with Linux, so......does that work in Mint? I don't recall seeing that option when I right clicked on my folder. I'll put up a screen shot later of what I see when I right click.

It works on any Linux distro regardless of the file manager used; Dolphin, Nautilus, Konqueror, what ever.

[soundchaser59]

this is really easy ,,,,,,,, just go to /home and rite click your user folder click properties then the permissions tab ,,,in the access permissions section set "others" to forbidden.

VINNY

This is all I see in Mint when I right click my folder...... and the choices available don't really make sense to me. Maybe I'm not right clicking on the correct thing?

[sithlord48]

perhaps this will help you
https://www.digitalocean.com/communi...ux-permissions

[soundchaser59]

perhaps this will help you
https://www.digitalocean.com/communi...ux-permissions

That will be extremely helpful, THANK YOU! I'll mess with it some more tonight.