alrighty here is the thing.

As with most newb's I am curious and always trying new things.

I have been playing with ownership/permissions and in the process have lost rights to all /home folders respectively for my users.

I am getting the error:

quote:
There was an error settuping up inter-process communications for KDE.
The message returned by the system was:

Could not read Network Connection List.
//: .DCOPserver_stealth__0

Please check that DCOPserver program is running.



I have tried (as per other posts and google findings):
chmod -R +w /home/*username
removing one file: /root/.ICEauthority
su -c "chown $WHO:users /home/$WHO/.ICEauthority" exit where $WHO is the user

Currently I can login as root and have no issues with KDE.

When in a root shell and su to my main account 'thanotos' to try and view permissions that the user has, this is the return

root@stealth:/home/windows# su thanotos
bash: /home/thanotos/.bashrc: Permission denied
thanotos@stealth:/home/windows$ cd
bash: cd: /home/thanotos: Permission denied

So all that I know for sure is that I do not have permissions for any of my users other than root. Nor can I change them back.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. I really dont want to remove and readd users.

LMAO...............


now that we got that out of the way........what are the permissions for
"/home"
???

drwx--x--x 2 forlamp users 80 2005-11-04 18:40 forlamp/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2005-07-14 05:14 ftp/
drwx--x--x 9 pickel users 400 2005-11-11 09:18 pickel/
drwx--x--x 2 test users 80 2005-11-11 13:23 test/
drwx--x--x 2 test2 users 80 2005-11-11 15:55 test2/
drwx--x--x 16 thanotos users 1024 2005-11-11 13:56 thanotos/
drwxr-xr-x 3 thanotos users 72 2005-11-04 09:57 windows/

looking at it everything looks good ...... (to me anyway)

root@stealth:/# id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),1(bin),2(daemon),3(sys),4(adm),6(disk),10(wheel),11(floppy)




Appreciate the help.

And I am glad that I could bring a smile to ones face with self induced suffering

I've had this problem recently when changing from SuSE back to Slackware. I reused a disk for /home, since I wanted to keep the files on it, and the user names and groups didn't match up, so DCOP saw ownership and group problems. I knew there was a problem when I did 'ls -al' to look at the dotfiles in my home dir and the user and group shown were numbers instead of my login and a group name.

I fixed it by chown'ing the dotdirs and dotfiles in my home dir to my login and chgrp'ing them to 'users'. I didn't know how to do only the dirs and files, but not the parent dir, so I did it in a series of commands:

chown -R my_login .a* .b* ...

then:

chgrp -R users .a* .b* ...

If I did 'chown -R .*' it would have tried to do the parent dir (..) too. Maybe someone can chime in with an easier way, but this fixed the problem for me.

Jim

You could use find and chown the files appropriately

example for 1 user :

appreciate the info,

I will post with the results and steps that resolved.

(might be a day before anything is posted.....need sleep)

I have spent the last couple of days trying to resolve this issue too. I eventually resolved it by setting my Home directory permissions to the default Home directory settings of 755 (I had other users to compare the settings with), i.e.

Owner: read, write, execute
Group: read, execute
Others: read, execute

Hope this helps

So here be a bit of an update.

keefaz = appreciate the solution, however it did not seem to work - whether I was not applying the info correctly or it just wants to be difficult.

Here is an update:

Patience is appreciated ... I am about to believe that I have FUBAR my users and may find it easier just to create 'a-new'.