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jae1227

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Registered: 2007-02-22

Posts: 31

What Permissions for my /home folder

Somehow I messed up my /home/justin folder so bad that I can not even login. I think I need to do a chmod to something but I don't know what to do. I try to log in and it just says that /home/justin is missing but it is not. Also it was saying that my .dmrc needed to be 644 but still let my login. Then the next time i rebooted it would not let me log in at all.

tardo

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Registered: 2006-07-15

Posts: 526

Re: What Permissions for my /home folder

chmod 700 /home/justin

edit: Means read/write for you, but everyone else is locked out.

Last edited by tardo (2007-06-18 05:36:37)

Zoranthus

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From: muc

Registered: 2006-11-22

Posts: 166

Re: What Permissions for my /home folder

Also make sure, that you're the owner of your home folder. ("ls -l /home" willl show, to change "chown justin /home/justin -R" will change it)

jae1227

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Registered: 2007-02-22

Posts: 31

Re: What Permissions for my /home folder

I got most of it working. Now I can log in but I get this message about $HOME/.dmrc not being ignored. It says file should be owned by user and have 644 permissions. I change the permissions and still get the error but it lets my login and go about my business.

KomodoDave

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From: Oxford, UK

Registered: 2007-04-22

Posts: 162

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Re: What Permissions for my /home folder

It says file should be owned by user and have 644 permissions. I change the permissions and still get the error but it lets my login and go about my business.

So you've done

$ su
$ chown user ~/.dmrc
$ chmod 644 ~/.dmrc

and still get the error?

- Dave