Changing permission on "Everyone" group on "Users" folder to "No Access"

Hello Everyone,
I need help on changing permission on "Everyone" group on "Users" folder to "No Access" using a Terminal command line.
What i'm trying to do is assign "Everyone" group to "No Access" on "User" folder to restrict other users from going to users home folder on the computer.
Right now, when a user login he/she has the ability to view files that are not located in the documents folder
PS
Network is configured for OD/AD, home folder is located on Dell Server
Appreciate the help, Thanks very much

You are running Oracle Linux and want to use a network volume provided by Windows 2008 to install Oracle Database.
Your problem is that you cannot set appropriate privileges on the mounted volume to perform the installation.
Is this correct?
If yes, then as far as I know, Windows file sharing is not support, even if you fix the permission issues. Your problem is the file system, which won't be Linux ext3. NFS might be supported, but I think it is not the best idea. Have you looked into iSCSI? It will allow you to mount remote disks using SCSI protocol. You could do pretty much everything with such a mounted disk that you can do with a locally attached drive, including initializing, but instead of using the local bus, it will use the TCP/IP network.
How to setup iSCSI on Windows Server 2008 (storage server)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/Video/ff710316
CentOS / Red Hat Linux: Install and manage iSCSI Volume
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/rhel-centos-fedora-linux-iscsi-howto.html
Edited by: Dude on Jun 23, 2011 12:08 PM

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THorner <[email protected]> writes:
RDBMSRealm, everyone group, guest user
Update-I've got it working.
AS well as the isMember change mentioned below I altered getPrincipal
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did something to RDBMSUser so that guest always authenticates
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Thanks for the help!
Cheers,
Derek
>
terry
-----Original Message-----
From: THorner
I am working on something similar (although not in a war),
which isn't working yet, but I can tell you a couple of
things that I have come across.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Derek
Scherger
Posted At: Mon 04 June 2001 22:13
Posted To: weblogic.developer.interest.security
Conversation: RDBMSRealm, everyone group, guest user
Subject: RDBMSRealm, everyone group, guest user
Hi folks, I'm having some fun with the rdbms realm lately and
have a few
questions.
We're using the RDBMSRealm example with form based auth under
WLS 5.1 SP 9 and
have the following in web.xml
<security-constraint>
<web-resource-collection>
<web-resource-name>All Pages</web-resource-name>
     <description>These pages are only accessible by all
authorised xyz users.</description>
<url-pattern>*</url-pattern>
</web-resource-collection>
<auth-constraint>
<description>These are the roles that have
access</description>
<role-name>
xyz
</role-name>
</auth-constraint>
</security-constraint>
<security-role>
<description>All application users</description>
<role-name>
xyz
</role-name>
</security-role>
which basically says that every page in the web-app requires
a user to be in the
xyz role and does seem to work fine.
Now, what I'd like to do is to allow everyone to access one
particular page
within the application (that is, this page does not require
the xyz role). So
something like the following would be great.
<security-constraint>
<web-resource-collection>
<web-resource-name>Some Particular Page</web-resource-name>
     <description>This page is accessible to
everyeone.</description>
<url-pattern>/particular/page.jsp</url-pattern>
</web-resource-collection>
<auth-constraint>
<description>everyone can get at this page.</description>
<role-name>everyone</role-name>
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</security-constraint>
However, this doesn't seem to work, I get redirected to the
form based login
page and once I've logged in can get to the page that I'm
hoping shouldn't
require a logged in user.
So I'm wondering about the xml syntax and semantics.
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first match
taken?
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applicable here?
Now my problem might also be the RDBMSRealm its self -- I'm
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looking for
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I've been searching around and I have read through many threads and I don't know what else I can try.
I need some guidance.

WZZZ,
Sorry I actually marked the wrong one by mistake. I was able to view the files inside by resetting the home folder permissions using the information you posted.
Thanks again!
Try resetting the home folder Permissions.
Boot from the Mac OS X Install Disc:
Insert the disc.
Shut down the computer.
Turn it on again whilst holding down the C key.
You can let go when you see a spinning dial.
Click through the menus until you after you’ve accepted a license agreement.
Snow Leopard: At the top, click Utilities -> Reset Password.
Lion: At the top, click Utilities -> Terminal. Type resetpassword in the Terminal and press Enter.
Click on your main hard drive.
In the dropdown box under “Select the user account” make sure to select your username.
Underneath where it says “Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs”, click the Reset button.
Press cmd + Q to Quit the Reset Password application. Press it again if you have a Terminal open.
Click Mac OS X Installer in the top left and click Quit Mac OS X Installer.
Click the Startup Disk button.
Click on your main hard drive and click the Restart button.

Changing permission on "Everyone" group on "Users" folder to "No Access"

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