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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Home Directory Permissions Post 302293017 by a_artha on Monday 2nd of March 2009 06:21:19 AM
Old 03-02-2009
I solved my problem

soln

mount the home directory partion with acl option.

then change the directory owner as root
Then Change mod to 700

Use the follwing command setfacl to give permission to user.

setfacl -m u:username:rwx foldername

check with getfacl
 

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