Permissions

[Daniel Robitaille]

On Sat, 2005-23-04 at 00:57 -0400, Andy wrote:
> Umm, I've never done this before.  I was messing around with some
> files, and changing their permissions.  For some reason I have some
> pictures marked as being executable.  Well, in the process of doing
> that, Nautilus crashed.  Now I have several directories that I can't
> access.  They are in my home directory, I made them, but when I try to
> change (cd @ commandline) to ~/Desktop I get permission denied.  So, I
> checked my permissions.  User gunksta (me) has read and write
> permissions.  I checked running as root, my files are still there, I
> just can't get to them.  What gives and what can I do to get back my
> stuff?

to be able to access a directory, the directory has to be executable, in
addition of having read permission.  So do a "chmod u+x
whateveryourdirectorynameis" from the command line to be able to access
that directory.




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