[SOLVED] Allow user read, write & exec only in home dir

[Martinss]

Hello there!

At first i must say, that at google didn't founded anything useful, or i'm searching with wrong keywords.

Basicly i need that user can read / write / exec only in his home directory. He is allowed to read other directorys / files, but nothing more - just read.

How can i do that?

[bryansmith]

How different is this than the default? Users are given those permissions for their home directories.

The only difference I see is that users are able to execute things outside their home directories but they need this to execute programs.

Bryan

[techieMoe]

By default users are only allowed to write to their /home/ directory. As far as executing goes... you might change their PATH to only include /home/username instead of /bin/ and /usr/bin/. However that would make the system functionally useless since they couldn't even list directories with "ls" unless they had exec privileges against /bin/.

I guess I'm confused as to what you're trying ultimately do here. Can you give us a more broad picture of what's happening?

[Martinss]

Oh, thank you. I'm stupid - thought all the time, that they can write outside their home dir too.