Okay. Today I was setting the file permissions to all of the files in a folder, but when I meant to type "chmod 666 ./*" I accidentally typed "chmod 666 /*", no period before the slash. Not surprisingly, it proceeded to change all of the folders in my root to rw-rw-rw. Now, for some reason, whenever I try to log in to my regular user account (deathprawn) from the console, it tells me it can't cd to "/home/deathprawn" and then logs out. I have no idea why this is happening. As a test, I even tried chmodding everything in root to rwxrwxrwx, but it still says I can't cd to my home dir when I log in to that user. It works fine as root. I'm using Debian unstable.

I think when you chmod /* it changes every file from root (/) down so every thing is changed. I think you must have x permission to change to a directory. I could be wrong but if I understood the file permission section of the book I read that is your problem. Otherwise just ignore me because I am just learning.

(edit) Also I think when you type cd it is executing a command, which you no longer have permission to do (/edit).


Thanks

I believe that it just changed the directories, since it wasn't using the -R (recursive) option. If you read my original post, I DO have full rwx access to the folder and the /bin folder.

Thanks so much!

when you say root do you mean /root directory or do you mean / as in the root directory for the entire file system. You said you typed /* which would mean change everything from / down which would be every thing in the entire file system.

hi! have you tried "chmod755 /*" ?! £Ä3