(solved) User account without access to main user's home folder

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Hi. I used the User Manager to create a new user’s account. But when I login to the new account, I can see the main user’s home folder with all its contents. No password is required to give this access. Is there any way to protect the main user’s home folder from the other users, with the use of my password? Thanks.

• This topic was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by andfree.

[Forum Admin Dave]

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Chown user1:user1 /home/user1/ -r
Chmod 770 /home/user1/
Should do it I think.

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The first command doesn’t seem to be OK:

$ chown dragon:dragon /home/dragon/ -r
chown: invalid option -- 'r'
Try 'chown --help' for more information.

But the second command did the job:

chmod 770 /home/dragon/

And the new user can’t see the /home/dragon/ folder. Many thanks.

[Anonymous]

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The first command doesn’t seem to be OK
^— but, to preclude unforeseen consequences, was probably necessary

chown -R . . .

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OK, I ran it with “sudo”, because some changes were not permitted. So, the steps for user1 to make his home folder invisible to other users are:

$ sudo chown user1:user1 /home/user1/ -R
$ chmod 770 /home/user1/

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