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Re: ssh quirks...
From: lamont () SECURITY HP COM (LaMont Jones)
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 15:24:18 -0700
This is standard unix behaviour. if a user's home directory path isn't readable by that user, they can't access it. typically the /home dir should be world readable as should the / dir. home directories can be any permissions a user wants and should be owned by the user themselves.
Minor nit: Read access (to a directory) is needed to list it. Execute access is needed to access things in it. You can log in with a home directory that is mode 100, but you won't be able to get anything out of ls... If, for whatever insane reason, you don't want your users knowing anyone else's home directory, you can remove world read perms from /etc/passwd, and make /home mode 511. Not that anyone would recommend that... lamont
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