I have a problem with writing data to sub directories inside my user's home folder. It wont let me do it at all. It also wont let me create new folders. It wont let me download file using kget (/home/eds/download). It wont let me write files from kaudiocreator (/home/eds/mp3) and so on. Via the root user, this isn't a problem. I would think the average user would have full rights to his/her own home folder.
p.s. If anyone has a good link for a tutorial on user's rights, that would be a HUGE help.

Just search Google for "linux user permissions" or some such thing, and you'll come across plenty of helpful material. Now, if you navigate to /home (as your regular user), then do a

to get a full view of the permissions of your home directory. Also, try an

to get your user ID and group ID information. If what is shown for the home directory doesn't match what the id command gives you, then there's a problem. As root, you'll want to use the

command to change the permissions of your home directory to match your user. If your user id is 500 and your group id is 500, then as root

will fix all of those permissions problems for you.

chown -R 500:500 /home/myuser didn't work until I did the id and realized that my uid is 1000 and gid is 100. After changing that, it worked like a charm. Thanks! Now I have another prob that may or may not be related. I can't cut and paste text. The clipper tool shows what i've copied (by using ctl c) but it wont paste. Any ideas? Is this related?