[SOLVED] How to undo chmod a-w?

itzmeluigi · 2013-02-01 06:59:14

Well i was following the Vsftpd ftp server wiki and ran chmod a-w on my user account, but now startx wont launch openbox and logging in slim doesnt work either. I tried using chmod a-w -R as root on my user account but startx still wont work. Slim reports the error"failed to execute login command" and when i exit slim and use startx it reports " xauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/user/.Xauthority". If someone knows a way to revert the chmod a-w so i can fix startx it would be greatly appreciated. Hopefully i dont have to reinstall.

Last edited by itzmeluigi (2013-02-01 08:07:08)

mzneverdies · 2013-02-01 07:12:38

I think you just removed the writing rights from all the files on you home. You could try to add write right to all files owner.

chmod +rw -R ~/

I think that should do it, but i'm not such an experienced user to be sure about it.

itzmeluigi · 2013-02-01 07:27:33

Thanks so much that works perfectly, i thought i was going to have delete the user account and reconfigure openbox. Going to create a new account for the vsftpd server so nothing conflicts

mzneverdies · 2013-02-01 07:43:56

I'm glad it helped.

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#1 2013-02-01 06:59:14

[SOLVED] How to undo chmod a-w?

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