applications can only write to home directory...[SOLVED]

gazza · 2009-12-01 09:05:23

...if logged in as root
I'm sure that this topic has be covered before, but I just cant find anything.

When I'm logged in as root, all applications work fine but when I'm logged in as myself most applications moan about not being able to create a directory.

For example if I start Geany, it complains:
Configuration directory could not be created (Permission denied).
There could be some problems using Geany without a configuration directory.
Start Geany anyway?

Epiphany had the same issue so I manually created the .epiphany directory/folder that it wanted to write to.

I'm sure its a permissions issue, but i can set my home dir to chmod -R 777 ... and the applications still complain

> groups gary
root wheel network video audio floppy storage users

I added myself to the root group, still no joy.

What do I need to do? Is there some group that I need to add to the user?

Many thanks in advance,
gazza

Last edited by gazza (2009-12-01 16:33:28)

rekado · 2009-12-01 11:31:25

Who owns your home directory?

karol · 2009-12-01 11:37:06

And do you mean '/home' or "~"?

rekado · 2009-12-01 11:43:55

Your user's home directory, ~ (i.e. /home/karol or similar).

karol · 2009-12-01 12:05:26

Just a bunch of wild guesses:
* maybe you've edited a file as root thus changing permissions and now ...
* maybe you (as a user) are trying to create the files/dirs in /root?

gazza · 2009-12-01 16:00:26

thanks everyone.
I had a play and changed the owner to root and then back to <user> (using chown -R <name>) .
Started geany no complaints, started ooffice no complaints
problem solved.

BTW I was refering to ~ rather than /home

I must have caused the problem by renaming/ creating directorys while acting as root.

Last edited by gazza (2009-12-01 16:02:05)

karol · 2009-12-01 16:05:17

> I must have caused the problem by renaming/ creating directorys while acting as root.
That's what I thought :-)

Can you mark the thread as solved?

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#1 2009-12-01 09:05:23

applications can only write to home directory...[SOLVED]

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Re: applications can only write to home directory...[SOLVED]

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Re: applications can only write to home directory...[SOLVED]

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Re: applications can only write to home directory...[SOLVED]

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Re: applications can only write to home directory...[SOLVED]

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Re: applications can only write to home directory...[SOLVED]

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