Hi all,

I am using openSuse 10.2 and am having some error message appear on start-up. It reads as follows:

"User's $HOME/.dmrc file is being ignored. This prevents the default session and language from being saved. File should be owned by user and have 644 permissions. User's $HOME directory must be owned by user and not writable by other users."


The comp still works fine after clicking OK button, but I am worried their may be some security issue, or other things that effect the way I use it.

The only thing I can recall is I was playing about with the Wine directory (to make it not hidden), and didn't succeed, but this directory only,no others. I'm still kinda new to linux!

Any help appreciated guys, thanks.

Try doing

Thanks for reply,

When i go to the terminal and type those commands in, all i get is the following:

$chmod 755 /home/matt
bash: 755: command not found

$chmod 644 ~/.dmrc
bash: 644: command not found


Any other suggestions?

Sorry my fault !!!

was typing in the dollar signs too lol! like say, kinda new to this especially terminal!

That worked a treat, thanks very much.

I don't suppose you could tell me what it did exactly though?

This changed the permissions of your home directory and the .dmrc file which were possibly owned by root to yourself. Once you've done that the login processes can read and write files into your home directory.

If the directory is not owned by you Linux will not be able to read or write in that directory. For exact information of the command I suggest you do a man chmod in a terminal on our system.

Cheers
Arvind

to understand whats going on in greater detail, read up on Linux/Unix permissions (as well as chmod as suggested above). This article may help you out.

Thanks guys, will read into it.

This is quite a jump from Windows lol... getting there tho.

cheers,

matt.