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Hans_Maulwurf

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Registered: 2008-08-06

Posts: 2

no permissions in my own home

Hi,

I installed Arch yesterday and tryed to install compiz-fusion today when i get the following message after "fusion-icon": "Permission denied: '/home/sebastian/.config/compiz/fusion-icon'"
as root it works (of course)

i already tryed "chown -R sebastian /home/sebastian/" and "chmod 744 -R /home/sebastian/" as root. after this i wanted to check my sucess by doing "chmod -R 744 /home/sebastian" as that user, but it gives me alot of no permission errors for some .hidden folders.

P.S. i also got the problem, that new entries in system->prefereses->session don't get saved when i close the window. i think, the reasson is the same: i don't have writing permission in my very own homedirectory

What to do???

Last edited by Hans_Maulwurf (2008-08-06 08:26:40)

kclive18

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From: Columbus, Ohio, USA

Registered: 2008-05-08

Posts: 219

Re: no permissions in my own home

I'm not too knowledgeable about bash commands, but I think you'd want to do this (as root):

chmod 744 /home/sebastian/.*

Then all the hidden folders starting with "." will be covered.  I'm not gonna guarantee this will work, but it doesn't hurt to try.

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rooloo

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Registered: 2008-07-09

Posts: 218

Re: no permissions in my own home

chown sebastian:users /home/sebastian/*

as root of course

use

ls -al

to see where file permissions stand.

Last edited by rooloo (2008-08-06 12:34:56)

Hans_Maulwurf

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Registered: 2008-08-06

Posts: 2

Re: no permissions in my own home

ls -al told me, that .config .cache and .. were owned by root.
i changed them and there lower folders and now everything is fine

thanks for your help

Last edited by Hans_Maulwurf (2008-08-06 15:19:21)

tigrmesh

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From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 794

Re: no permissions in my own home

Welcome to Arch!

Please mark this thread as solved (edit your first post).  That way others with permission problems can find help.  Thanks.

raul_nds

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From: Lisbon, Portugal

Registered: 2007-06-28

Posts: 258

Re: no permissions in my own home

OT: By the title, I though it was an issue with your mom =\

czar

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Registered: 2008-03-08

Posts: 115

Re: no permissions in my own home

maybe throw a -R in there to make sure that you know everything is covered.