[SOLVED] I messed up the file permissions in my /home/user? how will I restore it?

ionrivera · 10-20-2010, 10:31 PM

Silly thing is that err! I typed
# chmod -R 644 /home/user

when I logged in.. I cant boot to my xforce desktop.
.xsession permission problem

prayag_pjs · 10-20-2010, 11:25 PM

Hi,

As a root do chmod -R 755 /home/user

and also do chown -R user.user /home/user

ionrivera · 10-21-2010, 01:03 AM

programs like openoffice, firefox etc.. don't open permission problem

prayag_pjs · 10-21-2010, 01:09 AM

can you do ls -ld /home/user and let us know the owenr

also make sure you didnt run chmod command on /

honeybadger · 10-21-2010, 01:13 AM

hi,
post #2 should have resolved your issue AFAIK.
One more option we have is create a new user and everything should be resolved. Also we would be able to check if the issue is with this user only or comes up with every user we create.
BTW: asking op to chown was a very good idea and you had foresight

ionrivera · 10-21-2010, 01:44 AM

I changed all the directory inside my /home/user/ permissions to 755

and my files to 644 and

some hidden (.dbus, .gconf .kde etc...) files and folders to 700.

Thanks! problem solved!