[ubuntu-in] How to create a new user in Ubuntu, with restricted permissions

[Ramnarayan.K]

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Onkar Shinde <onkarshinde at gmail.com> wrote:

> Perhaps you are approaching the problem in wrong way. If the only
> thing you want to achieve is restrict the new user from accessing
> other users' home directories then you should check the umask. I
> believe the default is 0022 which allows other users to read files and
> list contents of directories.
>

Seems you have got us on the right track




> You can either change the default umask in /etc/profile or with the
> appropriate mount options of the partition where /home is present (if
> on separate partition). The sensible default in your case will be 0077
> (or a bit less restrictive 0066).
>
>
> so i have see the file /etc/profile

the last line is umask 0022

but is this for any user or all users - am supposing that /etc/foo will be
coming to all users

so if i change it what exactly happens ??

@ Ramachandra - saw the chroot thingy am not sure that it would work -
seems a bit complicated to implement

thanks
ram
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