What should be the ideal home directory permissions in linux

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I have accidently changed

/home

permissions to

and now i don't know what permission to set.

John · Answer 1 · 2009-12-09 00:13:15Z

I think the best permission would be

 711 if you dont want to add groups as well or

 751  so that public can't read your home directory

with 755 public can read which other users are on you home directory

andol · Answer 2 · 2009-12-08 23:42:19Z

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The default would usually be 0755.

I guess 0751 would also work, if you for some reason don't want the content to be publicly browsable.

(of course, owned by root:root)

answered Dec 8 '09 at 23:42

andol
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	But i have websites for public view in user accounts – OooooO Dec 8 '09 at 23:47
	Yes, and you can have different ownership settings on folders further down in the tree. The only thing which is import at this level is that "others" (value to the far right) at least has the X-bit (1), allowing anyone to traverse further down to the publicly browsable folders, which then also would be to be readable. – andol Dec 9 '09 at 0:21

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dlo · Answer 3 · 2009-12-08 23:48:41Z

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I would say 0755 is your best bet.

answered Dec 8 '09 at 23:48

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Luke has no name · Answer 4 · 2009-12-09 00:18:46Z

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the /home directory should be 755 IMO. I use 755 or 750 on each user's /home/username directory for more privacy.

answered Dec 9 '09 at 0:18

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