setting folders to different permissions

[Brian Keating]

Hi,

I want to set /home dir to chmod 750 but all dirs included to 755.  Anyone have a solution?

Thanks,

Brian.

[jcbollinger]

If you really want to do this then you'll have to manage the subdirectories of /home separately from /home itself.  If you can't be sure of knowing what all the subdirectories are, then you could perhaps do it with an Exec.

I am compelled to observe, however, that your requirement seems backwards.  Surely you want /home to be 755, and its subdirectories 750, yes?  Not that that changes the answer.


John

[Lowe Schmidt]

That won't help, because if "other" cant run execute on /home they can cd into directories below /home.

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[Craig White]

The answer may actually depend on the OS you are using but I agree with John that this actually requires 2 separate directives...

On a Red Hat system...

# cat /etc/default/useradd

# useradd defaults file

GROUP=100

HOME=/home

INACTIVE=-1

EXPIRE=

SHELL=/bin/bash

SKEL=/etc/skel

CREATE_MAIL_SPOOL=yes

the /home/$USER would have 755 permissions by default though you could use puppet to ensure that if a $USER changes his $HOME directory permissions, they are changed back.

Likewise, you could set /home to 750 permissions to ensure that any changes are overridden. Obviously if you set /home to 750 permissions, then the 'group' would have to be set to a group that all users belong to so there's something lacking in the question (i.e. 'users' on a Red Hat system).