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NWE Help: Instruct: Teaching Help: File Privacy
[an error occurred while processing this directive]By default, your NWE home directory has fairly secure permissions: readable, writable, and executable only by you (drwx--x--x). These pages are designed to help you learn about file privacy, and about how to make sure your files are secure.
- New subdirectory:: Make a separate private subdirectory
- Existing subdirectory:: Close the permissions of existing subdirectories
Since permissions are a pretty complicated business, please be careful with them, or contact us for assistance. To learn more about permissions, see our permissions pages and our chmod page.