On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 13:20 -0400, John & Christine wrote: > On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 02:13:06 -0700, Steve <steve.bolam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Tonight I was installing some goodies with yum and operating as root at > > times. Now when I log in as myself, the Computer, Trash and My Home > > folders have become read only. What have I done, and how do I fix it. > > > > I've only had Linux installed for a week and I thought I was getting the > > hang of it. Guess this is another reality check. > > > > Thanx in advance, > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > Use Nautilus and look at the owner/permissions of one of the > now-read-only files/folders. (right click/properties/Permissions). If > it looks like the problem is permissions/ownership, open a terminal , > su , nautilus again and fix the permissions. > John A faster way of doing this is to open the terminal, su to root then enter at the # prompt: "chown -R --from=root:root mylogin:mylogin ~*" (without the quotation marks!). This will find every file (-R) in your home directory that has permissions set to owner=root, group=root, and change them to your login name on both the owner and group. For more info about chown use man chown at the terminal prompt. HTH Scott -- When in doubt -- Vote 'Em out!
