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05-22-2005, 01:35 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2005
Location: CT
Distribution: Slackware 10.1
Posts: 21
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Can't write to home dir.
I can't write to my home dir (write, or exucute) files. I'm nto sure why not anyone have any insight on this? Root can read, write, excute. But I don't want to run as root, seeing it's unsecure. So, any ideas of what's wrong, or how to fix this?
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05-22-2005, 01:37 PM
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Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Scotland
Distribution: Slackware, RedHat, Debian
Posts: 12,047
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What are the permissions on your home directory?
ls -la ~
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05-22-2005, 02:18 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2005
Location: CT
Distribution: Slackware 10.1
Posts: 21
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drwxr-xr-x 45 root root 4096 2005-05-22 01:23 darklord/
That's what I get when I "ls -la" /home/
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05-22-2005, 02:21 PM
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Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Scotland
Distribution: Slackware, RedHat, Debian
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Just change the owner to your user:
chown -R darklord /home/darklord
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05-22-2005, 02:25 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2003
Posts: 4
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You need to change the permissions to your home directory. You need to su to root, or log in as root. Once you are root, then you need to do: chmod user.group darklord (where user is the user name and group is the group name for the user).
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05-22-2005, 02:42 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2005
Location: CT
Distribution: Slackware 10.1
Posts: 21
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Ah. Thank you!
*goes off to become a contributing member*
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