user permission /home

vladakg85 · 02-12-2007, 02:31 PM

I have slackware 11 installed on desktop PC, and one user (me) now I'am always logged in like user but use terminal like root(I dont know is this ok)? I create some dir in /home/user and after that I cant change this dir like user only like root(save,remove...)? When I type ls -l perrmission is only belongs to root. Why is that so, how to change?

thanx

nilleso · 02-12-2007, 02:40 PM

Sounds like you created this directory as root, so it is owned by root. To change ownership to your non-root user:

Code:

chmod yourusername yourdirectoryname

cheers

MOS JEFF-INITELY · 02-12-2007, 02:56 PM

chown -R <username> /home/<username> # change the owner of the file/folder
chgrp -R <groupname> /home/<username> # change the group owner of the file/folder

and no .. it is not considered safe to be root at all times.

vladakg85 · 02-12-2007, 04:16 PM

tnx
solved with chown