Controlling access to your home directory

You will need to understand access permissions, in particular the meaning of permissions on directories, before reading this section.

If you are happy with others being able to list your files, and access any files that you allow them to, then use mode 755 on your home directory: 

    chmod 755 ~

On the other hand, you may not want anyone to be able to even get a directory listing of your files. Even so, you should leave the x (search) bit on. This allows others to access files under your home directory that you would like to be public (like your web pages, for example). Do: 

    chmod 711 ~
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