cannot login

pingvina · 01-13-2006, 04:29 PM

i list world writable dirs:
find / -perm -0002 -type d -print
and then change permission:
find / -perm -0002 -type d -print | xargs chmod 644
...now i cannot login with regular user, only as root
i check /var/log for clue...

xdm-errors- /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession - line 15 Permission denied - it is /dev/null (i changed that to "775")
- line 52 Permission denied -it is also /dev/null

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID - it is also 775.

bosewicht · 01-13-2006, 04:50 PM

what are/were you trying to do? you have to be carefull changing permissions. Check the permissions on your home directory

0 = --- = no access
1 = --x = execute
2 = -w- = write
3 = -wx = write and execute
4 = r-- = read
5 = r-x = read and execute
6 = rw- = read and write
7 = rwx = read write execute (full access)

pingvina · 01-13-2006, 04:55 PM

what is that arch distribution??

bosewicht · 01-13-2006, 05:00 PM

I would stay away from arch for a while if i were you.

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=arch

pingvina · 01-13-2006, 05:01 PM

stderr is not a tty - where are you?
apps file failure
BScreen::BScreen: managing screen 0 using visual 0x23, depth 24
Error: No running window found
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).

this is .xsession-errors in my home dir... any clue

pingvina · 01-13-2006, 05:02 PM

how much space it is usung installed??

bosewicht · 01-13-2006, 05:09 PM

huh?? right now it looks like X is whats giving you the problems. are you able to startx as root?

pingvina · 01-13-2006, 05:16 PM

X loads as root
which files it is needing??

bosewicht · 01-13-2006, 05:20 PM

are you root right now? from a terminal, type

su <your username> <- not root username, your normal user
then enter your password at the prompt.

are you able to log in that way?

pingvina · 01-13-2006, 05:22 PM

yes... i log even without password!?

pingvina · 01-13-2006, 05:23 PM

which file to download - arch or arch base??

bosewicht · 01-13-2006, 05:28 PM

lol....ok if you are still logged in as your normal user type
passwd
at the prompt and you can set a password.
Now back to permissions.
try
mv -fr /home/<your user>/.kde /home/<your user>/.kde.old
then
mv -fr /home/<your user>/.kderc /home/<your user>/.kderc.old

use tab for the second one, i don't remember if it is .kderc, but i think it is.
then log out completely and try to log in as your normal user.

pingvina · 01-13-2006, 05:30 PM

-rw------- 1 user user 165 2006-01-06 16:41 .ICEauthority
-rw------- 1 user user 0 2006-01-14 00:17 .Xauthority
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 342 2006-01-06 03:47 .Xdefaults
-rw------- 1 user user 4784 2006-01-14 01:32 .bash_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 21 2006-01-06 03:47 .bash_profile
-rwxr-x--- 1 user user 961 2006-01-09 19:39 .bashrc

is that correct permissions?

pingvina · 01-13-2006, 05:30 PM

this is my home dir... not root

pingvina · 01-13-2006, 05:32 PM

i use fluxbox.