Safety issue: Another user can access some read only folders of mine

Hi,
big, serious problem: I had created a simple account user for guest access on my 10.5.7 system. Now i logged into this account, opened the finder and browsed my supervisor's home directory. Some folders i had created in there were readable (including the websites folder). Okay, they were set to readable (read only, not read write) according to the Information Window (CMD-I).
But when i browsed them i decided to delete a file. I selected the file, hit the delete button and wooosh away it was. What the f..? I wasn't even asked for my supervisor' s password. It just had deleted the file.
Crosschecking by creating a new folder and moving it into the very same directory revealed i had write access. NOT GOOD! (scream!)
Anyone had the same shocking experience of OS X being not safe?
However, after i changed the permissions of the respective folders to "no permissions" and then changed them back to "read only", they at least were read only.
But hey - how can I tell which folders of mine are really safe? I can't check up every folder if another user on my system has "by accident" write permissions to a folder which reads "read only" in the Information Window.
Help!
Fox

Foxboy71 wrote:
Hi,
I've created the first folder as a "Data" Folder *inside my home directory* to archive Downloads of different kinds (Programs / Utils / all this stuff). i wanted to have these Downloads accessible for all Users so that they can get the Data out of this folder. So the path is /Users/(me)/Data.
The other folder is my "Website" folder, standard OS X.
The exact Information of the Info Window:
(Me) read&write
admin read&write
everyone read only
the User account in question is not an admin account.
now I'm completely confused. are you saying that you can write to this folder from a different account which is not an admin account?? that should not be possible based on these permissions. please double-check and make sure that the other account is not listed as admin in system preferences->accounts.
also, these permissions are wrong anyway. did you change them yourself? the default permissions on a newly created folder in your home directory should look quite different. log in as your main user and make a folder at the top level of your home directory. what are the permissions there?
P.S. the unknown user you see is quite normal if you upgraded to leopard from Tiger.
My account is an admin account.
Thanks for the reply,
Fox

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