Ubuntu – Restrict access to the home folder from another standard user account

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I have made a new user on my machine to be used by my family.

But when I logged in to the family account which is not an administrative account, I could access my home folder(which is an administrative account).

I want to restrict the access to my home folder from the new standard user…How do I do this??

And I would also like to restrict that user from using the other NTFS partitions I have.

In short that account should have access only to its own home folder and not to my home folder or to any NTFS partition present.

Best Answer

One way would be logging in as your user, open up a terminal (hit Ctrl+Alt+T), type

chmod go-rwx ~

and hit enter.

Like that you deny the permission to read, write and cd to your home directory to anybody apart from you.