On Wednesday 20 October 2004 13.27, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Olle Eriksson (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > $ sudo chmod o-rwx /home/username/* > > $ sudo chmod o-rwx /home/username/.* > > All files in your /home should be yours, so it should be sufficient to > run chmod as a user. BTW, you are lucky you didn't run the second chmod > with the -R option, like I did a while ago. .* also includes ..
Oh but actually I did. :) I just found out. Luckily the other directories in /home are not critical and rather small, so it was no big problem to fix them. > Aha. So there are files in your home folder, that you need, and that > are owned by root? Why? I guess the problem is that they belonged to > root. With the restrictive permissions, you could not access them. The > change I would make is not to make them world-readable. Instead use > chown to change the owner from root to olle. I found out why. See my other post. Thanks Olle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
