Hi, I'm hoping you guys will help me with this one as I'm way out of my depth... You may or may not know that Ubuntu sets user's Home directories as world-readable by default. To me this is an insane default for a modern-day OS and I'd like to create a tutorial for myself and other newbs so that we can make suitable changes *once* and not have to worry about the subject each time we create a new user on the box. What I want is to have all folders within the Home folder locked to anyone but the owner and then have a 'Public' folder which is read/write and within the 'Public' folder, a 'Dropbox' which is write only. Similar to the OSX defaults. So far I have gleaned that I can create a folder/permission structure in /etc/skel which then becomes the default for a new user. I can also change the default permissions for directories in /etc/adduser.conf The problems I am having are: 1) I can't set the 'write only' permissions to the 'Dropbox'. 2) I can't set the permissions so that the Home folder is accessible but some folders within it are not. The solution seems to lie with activating Access Control Lists but I fall at the first hurdle which is to always mount the relevant partition with ACL active. Can anyone give me a nudge? I'm hoping that between us we can write up a simple and elegant solution. Thanks S
