Basic perms and owners

[clickit]

What should the permissions and ownership be for:
/boot, /usr, /opt, /var, /home, /tmp?

[jayd512]

Typically, you should just leave them set for the default permissions.
Changing them could cause problems with your system, or even failure to boot.

[Freston]

Something like this?

drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4.0K 2007-04-30 06:35 bin/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4.0K 2010-09-20 16:49 boot/
drwxr-xr-x  13 root root  15K 2011-09-16 09:08 dev/
drwxr-xr-x  71 root root  12K 2011-09-10 14:09 etc/
drwxr-xr-x  11 root root  256 2010-10-13 14:43 home/
drwxr-xr-x   5 root root 4.0K 2010-09-20 16:12 lib/
drwx------   2 root root  16K 2010-09-19 14:44 lost+found/
drwxr-xr-x  16 root root 4.0K 2011-07-14 19:51 media/
drwxr-xr-x  10 root root 4.0K 2006-09-26 05:09 mnt/
drwxr-xr-x   6 root root 4.0K 2011-03-24 10:59 opt/
dr-xr-xr-x 171 root root    0 2011-07-14 21:50 proc/
drwx--x---  15 root root 4.0K 2011-09-10 14:02 root/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  12K 2010-09-20 16:12 sbin/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4.0K 2010-09-20 16:04 srv/
drwxr-xr-x  12 root root    0 2011-07-14 21:50 sys/
drwxrwxrwt  12 root root 4.0K 2011-09-18 15:46 tmp/
drwxr-xr-x  19 root root 4.0K 2009-01-05 22:07 usr/
drwxr-xr-x  17 root root 4.0K 2009-05-06 19:43 var/

[clickit]

Thanx Freston exactly what was needed.

[ford]

typically, any root directory should be rwx for root, x only for everyone else. a user's home directory should be rwx for the user only. /opt is ... well... opt so set it to whatever you want.