home directory permissions

[givethedogabone]

im having huge troubles here - im new to linux and have been searching for hours for the solution!

im basically trying to set the permissions for the home directory for users on my machine.

and also veiw a list of all users permissions for home directories

i can set the permissions for the indiviual files in my home directory and veiw them with ls -l

and SUSE seems to let me set the permissions for the home directory too - but i cant find a way to veiw them?

any help would be appriciated so much!
thanks and sorry if i sound like a noob - its because i am

[Jonathan183]

Have you tried ls /home -l ?

[mikesd]

I'm confused why you want to change the permissions for the home directories. They should bet set for the user by default.

But do ls -l /home and you will see the permissions. Then if you want to change the permissions youse chmod. If you want to change owners, use chown

[D-cat]

Just adding: only root can change ownership or permissions of files not owned by the current user.
You can use sudo command to accomplish this task without changing to root.