Other user can see my home directory [Solved]

[SirGrant]

Hi, my roommate and I have this agreement. We both created users on each other's computers. This is for like an emergency like if one of our computers crashes we can log onto the others if we need to to in case of something like we need to print out an assignment for a class or need to go on the internet to look up the solution to the crashing problem.

My issue is that I created a user account for him on my gentoo box. The problem is that he can see my home directory. Basically I want his user to be isolated and have his own home directory where he can do stuff but I don't want him to be able to look at my stuff at all. The reason I want this is because while I trust him to not snoop in my files I'd just rather still remove that temptation. I mean I'm not super worried, he is a windows guys and knows nothing about GNU/Linux so I don't even think he understands basic *nix file structures so I'm sure he doesn't even know what a home directory is. Still I'd prefer if mine wasn't visible. Basically I want him to be able to log in and use programs like firefox, openoffice, CUPS and stuff but if he looks around not see my home directory and files. How would I go about setting this sort of thing up?

[Sadako]

This would do the trick, as root;

[SirGrant]

total 8
drwxr-xr-x 36 sirgrant sirgrant 4096 Jul 30 16:39 sirgrant
drwxr-xr-x 17 thio thio 4096 Jul 28 05:10 thio

sirgrant is my home directory
thio is my roommates

[Sadako]

[SirGrant]

Hey thanks a lot that worked . I'm off to study the man pages to make sure I totally understand what I was doing (I skimmed them before I did it). Appreciate the help. I've never been strong on understanding file permissions.