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stiffy420

Member

Registered: 2009-12-11

Posts: 99

Owner question

Hey again!

i didnt have permission to change/move my backup files. cause the owner was root. I then did

chown -R myname:myname ~/

was that a bad move? i also saw that /.config was owned by root.

is it possible to change it back, if necessery?

Dirk Sohler

Member

From: Hamburg, Germany

Registered: 2009-10-03

Posts: 109

Re: Owner question

Please be sure to name the things correctly!

I' VERY sure that there is no such file like "/.config". Maybe you mean "~/.config".

With "~/" you refer to your home directory. With chmod parameter "-R" you use recursive mode. To access backup files crated by several applications you need to use "*~".

What you did, if "chown -R myname:myname ~/" was successful, you changed the permission of all files and folders in your home directory to "myname:myname". By the way. This is Debian like. In Arch it is "myname:users". You can easily fix this by running "chown -R myname:users ~/".

If "~/.config" was not owned by you, something went wrong during the setup or you broke it afterwards.

Please inform yourself about file and folder permissions under Linux in general and under Arch in special before breaking anything else

Last edited by Dirk Sohler (2009-12-25 21:22:58)

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