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ManBlue

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From: Virginia, USA

Registered: 2010-09-02

Posts: 26

[SOLVED] Always having to sudo

Greetings

I guess I've had Arch running for a couple months now and I think I've read the Beginners' Guide correctly, but I'm not sure I need to keep sudo'ing everything. I can open the applications I've installed just fine, but when it comes time to save a file or setting I'm given every manner of message box pretty much resulting in "NO". When I open xterm and "sudo the app name I can save things. It makes the menu useless for most apps. The stupidity of running everything root have been hammered in just fine, but how will I get anything done?  I'm using Openbox and putting sudo or gksu in the command sections of the menu config wont work or prompt for password.

What could I have missed please.

Last edited by ManBlue (2010-11-16 01:24:35)

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skunktrader

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2010-02-14

Posts: 1,543

Re: [SOLVED] Always having to sudo

Perhaps the permissions on your home directory are borked

ls -l /home

Last edited by skunktrader (2010-11-15 21:15:06)

Barrucadu

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From: York, England

Registered: 2008-03-30

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Re: [SOLVED] Always having to sudo

It sounds like you've messed up your permissions by running things as root. It might be really easy to fix (might be /home/whatever/ itself) or it might be lots of different files and directories with bad permissions (which is an utter pain to fix).

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filoktetes

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From: Skien, Norway

Registered: 2003-12-29

Posts: 287

Re: [SOLVED] Always having to sudo

Yes, I woudl have tried

sudo chmod -R <username>:users /home/username

and if that doesn't fix it, something serious is
wrong...

ikamusume

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Registered: 2010-11-15

Posts: 7

Re: [SOLVED] Always having to sudo

It sounds like you've messed up your permissions by running things as root. It might be really easy to fix (might be /home/whatever/ itself) or it might be lots of different files and directories with bad permissions (which is an utter pain to fix).

As long as it's only his home directory (which it should be), a quick find . with xargs is going to help, since you don't really want anything owned by other users in your ~/.

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ManBlue

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From: Virginia, USA

Registered: 2010-09-02

Posts: 26

Re: [SOLVED] Always having to sudo

ls -l /home returns

total 4
drwxrwx--- 47 cory users 4096 Nov 15 20:07 cory

sudo chmod -R cory:users /home/cory returns

 chmod: invalid mode: `cory:users'
Try `chmod --help' for more information.

did I enter the last command wrong filoktetes?

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thestinger

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From: Toronto, Canada

Registered: 2010-01-23

Posts: 478

Re: [SOLVED] Always having to sudo

use chown, not chmod

ManBlue

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From: Virginia, USA

Registered: 2010-09-02

Posts: 26

Re: [SOLVED] Always having to sudo

Thank you thestinger, that did the trick for the saves!

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