Preventing users from looking in the directory above?

[zoniguana]

Is there a help file that anybody knows of where I can prevent users from seeing any directories higher than their own?

I don't want jane going up to users, and then into john's directory, even if she *can't* write anything to it...

Even more importantly, I don't want company.com looking in corporation.com's folders.

Is this something I can easily disable? Thanks!!

[stoe]

open up a terminal and get to the place containing the directory you want to protect.

assuming you just want the owner of the file to have access to the directory do:

chmod u=rwx,g=,o= some_dir_here

if you want the owner *and* group to have access
to the dir do:

chmod u=rwx,g=rwx,o= some_dir_here

that oughta do it...

you probably can do this as well from nautilus or midnight commander, but i'm somewhat of a minimalist, so i can't tell you how to do it from there. (i use twm as my window manager :D )

[stoe]

check out this if you want more info on operating linux from the command line, its a whole book available for free:

http://wwwacs.gantep.edu.tr/linux/rute/

[zoniguana]

Looks exciting! Thanks!
I figured out one item already. Changing all the subdirectories to chmod 754 locks any other users from seeing the contents of another's directory... Now, if I can prevent them from even getting into the next directory up (while allowing them to get into their own directory), I'll really be excited!

As in /var/www/users/jacob can't even see the contents of /var/www/users. That would be most exciting...