file permissions messed up

jellywerker · 2005-07-01 17:57:01

after doing some file stuff as su in my home, I can no longer work in it as a normal user, is there a way to fix this?

tomk · 2005-07-01 20:00:41

Are you sure it's permissions? Not ownership? What does ls -l look like?

jellywerker · 2005-07-01 21:54:43

drwxr-xr-x 42 root root

jellywerker · 2005-07-02 03:13:39

how would I change this to my user then?

Dusty · 2005-07-02 03:22:11

chown myuser.mygroup file

If its a directory

chown myuser.mygroup directory -R

man chown will help

Dusty

jellywerker · 2005-07-02 03:23:36

thanks

jellywerker · 2005-07-02 03:27:13

as root? and how to I check what group? I am in several groups, video, etc...

jellywerker · 2005-07-02 03:28:53

oi, nvm, it works, thanks

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