Warning running commands out of an other users home directory is ill
advised and should be avoided at all costs.
By changing the users home directory permissions you may cause
problems as a side effect. For example if the user logs in via ssh and
uses a key for authentication it may fail due to the home directory
permissions being insure which is a very common side effect of doing
this kind of change.




On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 2:13 AM, Mahmood Naderan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Sorry, I just saw the mistake, I forgot to mention that you need to
>> grant access to the your home directory as mentioned by Mark.
>>
>> chmod o+rx /home/mahmood (I added read as the user didn't have
>> permission to access the directory.
>
>>If the filename is known (no requirement to do a ls on the directory), then
>> execute is sufficient.  If you give read, then all the >filenames in your
>> directory are revealed (but not necessarily the contents).
>
> Yes, thank you. It is now solved and the execute permission was good tip
>
>
> Regards,
> Mahmood
>
> ________________________________
> From: John Lauro <[log in to unmask]>
> To: Earl Ramirez <[log in to unmask]>
> Cc: [log in to unmask]; Mahmood Naderan <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 12:30 AM
>
> Subject: Re: How a user can execute a file from anothe user
>
> One minor note,
>
> Read isn't needed on the directories if the user/script/etc knows the path.
> If the filename is known (no requirement to do a ls on the directory), then
> execute is sufficient.  If you give read, then all the filenames in your
> directory are revealed (but not necessarily the contents).
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Earl Ramirez" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: "Mahmood Naderan" <[log in to unmask]>
>> Cc: [log in to unmask]
>> Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2013 4:43:31 PM
>> Subject: Re: How a user can execute a file from anothe user
>>
> ...
>> Sorry, I just saw the mistake, I forgot to mention that you need to
>> grant access to the your home directory as mentioned by Mark.
>>
>> chmod o+rx /home/mahmood (I added read as the user didn't have
>> permission to access the directory.
>>
>> You should now be able to execute the script as another user.
>>
>> For your reference:
>>
>> I created a folder named "shared" in user2 home directory
>>
>> @lab19 ~]# ls -la /home/user2
>> total 40
>> drwx---r-x. 5 user2 user2  4096 Sep 26 15:57 .
>> drwxr-xr-x. 5 root  root  4096 Sep 26 15:53 ..
>> -rw-------. 1 user2 user2  1387 Sep 26 16:27 .bash_history
>> -rw-r-----. 1 user2 user2    18 Feb 21  2013 .bash_logout
>> -rw-r-----. 1 user2 user2  176 Feb 21  2013 .bash_profile
>> -rw-r-----. 1 user2 user2  124 Feb 21  2013 .bashrc
>> drwxr-x---. 2 user2 user2  4096 Nov 11  2010 .gnome2
>> drwxr-x---. 4 user2 user2  4096 Dec 20  2012 .mozilla
>> drwxrws---. 2 user2 public 4096 Sep 26 15:57 shared
>> -rw-------. 1 user2 user2  641 Sep 26 15:57 .viminfo
>>
>> Created the script and was able to execute it from the user name
>> user1
>>
>> @lab19 ~]# ls -la /home/user2/shared/
>> total 12
>> drwxrws---. 2 user2 public 4096 Sep 26 15:57 .
>> drwx---r-x. 5 user2 user2  4096 Sep 26 15:57 ..
>> -rwxrwx---. 1 user2 public  18 Sep 26 15:57 script1
>>
>> user1@lab19 ~]$ /home/user2/shared/script1
>> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/mapper/vg_lab11-lv_root
>>                      5.5G  2.8G  2.5G  54% /
>> tmpfs                504M  232K  504M  1% /dev/shm
>> /dev/vda1            485M  92M  369M  20% /boot
>> /dev/md127            2.0G  100M  1.9G  5% /home/labs
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> Kind Regards
>> Earl Ramirez
>> GPG Key: http://trinipino.com/PublicKey.asc
>>
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