permission denied into $home

[Dale Farnsworth]

Craig White wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 03:17 +0000, Dale Farnsworth wrote:
> > In article <20060325235347.CEVS17437.fed1rmmtao12.cox.net@[172.18.180.8]> bmike101 at cox.net wrote:
> > > > Mike could/should provide more information. 
> > > root at 2[home]# ls -ld / /home /home/bmike1 /home/
> > > bmike1/.bashrc 
> > > drwxr-xr-x   18 root     root         4096 2006-03-25 
> > > 07:00 / 
> > > drwxr-xr-x    6 root     root         4096 2006-02-21 
> > > 19:56 /home 
> > > drwxrwxrwx   55 bmike1   bmike1       4096 2006-03-24 
> > > 22:41 /home/bmike1 
> > > -rw-rw-rw-    1 bmike1   bmike1        123 2006-02-21 
> > 
> > The permissions of /home/bmike1 are obviously wrong.
> > 
> > This is one of those rare times when the original error message
> > pointed precisely at the problem.
> ----
> ;-)
> 
> chmod -R +x /home

You do *not* want to make all files and directories under /home
executable.  You'll have to be more selective.  This should take
care of the directories:

	find /home -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod +x

If you have files that should be executable, perhaps in
/home/bmike1/bin, do something like:
	chown +x /home/bmike1/bin/*

> (optional)
> chmod -R g-w,o-w /home/bmike1 
> # but I think you are a one user system so it probably doesn't matter

Yes, this is a good idea, I'd include everything under /home:

	chmod -R go-w /home

-Dale