realizing i read too quickly... If I understand it, all the files in your homedir are owned by another user. (Did you do a reinstall and create users in a different order, generating different UIDs?) The permissions, -rw-r--r--, are correct. You need to chown instead of chmod. As root run chown -R marek:marek /home/marek On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 01:16, Jonathan Marc Bearak wrote: > recursive switch: > chmod -R u+w ~ > > On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 00:10, Marek wrote: > > Hi > > > > My home dir permissions have got a bit tangled up. > > > > /home/marek has the correct permissions. But all the dir under that are > > user 501 (-rw-r--r--) and i can not write to them. > > > > I have tried setting the permissions with konqueror but it always gets > > stuck with some file that cannot be changed. > > > > Is there a command line to do this all in one shot. Instead of doing > > chmod 777 on each dir which only seems to work. 755 does not and chmod > > 777 /home/marek does not either. 777 seems to be incorrect anyway. > > > > Marek > > > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
