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JackH79

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[SOLVED] cd /home/user/.config >>> Permission denied

I've just installed arch on my work computer (win 7) via VirtualBox and installed awesome (works fine). Just wanted to copy the generic "rc.lua" file into "/home/arch/.config/awsome" but it wouldn't allow me. So I went:

$ cd /home/arch/.config

I got:

bash: cd: /home/arch/.config: Permission denied

Huh?

When I:

$ ls -la

I get:

drw-rw-rw- 3 arch arch 4096 Apr 20 18:02 .config

Am I missing something? I have no problem entering the directory as root.
Anybody any idea?

Last edited by JackH79 (2010-04-20 09:48:09)

ngoonee

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Re: [SOLVED] cd /home/user/.config >>> Permission denied

The permissions are different from mine (700 here, or rwx------)...

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bharani

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Re: [SOLVED] cd /home/user/.config >>> Permission denied

You are not having execute persmission.
sudo you can just
chmod 700 .config

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JackH79

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Re: [SOLVED] cd /home/user/.config >>> Permission denied

Thanks a bunch for the quick reply to you both! That's done the trick.

Weird though that it was wrong. Guess I must've done something stupid earlier. No idea how though.

Last edited by JackH79 (2010-04-20 09:49:58)

tomk

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Re: [SOLVED] cd /home/user/.config >>> Permission denied

Directories have to be executable - yours wasn't.

ngoonee

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Re: [SOLVED] cd /home/user/.config >>> Permission denied

Thanks a bunch for the quick reply to you both! That's done the trick.

Weird though that it was wrong. Guess I must've done something stupid earlier. No idea how though.

You probably ran (or had a bad package/script run) chmod 666 -R on your ~/

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JackH79

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Re: [SOLVED] cd /home/user/.config >>> Permission denied

Directories have to be executable - yours wasn't.

Thanks. Hadn't thought about that.

You probably ran (or had a bad package/script run) chmod 666 -R on your ~/

Maybe. Tried to retrace my steps to figure out what I did, but because I did it at work I did everything in like five-minute-pieces, getting distracted all the time. The only thing I can think of that actually touched the folder at installation time was the "sakura" community package, though I don't believe that it would do something like that. I'll try to do it again when I'm at work though. Just to make sure.

Thanks anyway for your input.