On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 00:45, Scott Talbot wrote:
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:
Use Nautilus and look at the owner/permissions of one of theTonight 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,
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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
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[root@d207-81-8-112 bigdaddy]# chown -R --from=root:root bigdaddy:bigdaddy ~*chown: cannot access `~*': No such file or directory
There should not be an * at the end of that line, just ~.
compare: [/]$ls ~ and [/]$ls ~/*
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