permissions

[William Witt]

On Friday 05 September 2008 19:42:17 Doug Pollard wrote:
> Charlie Kravetz wrote:
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> > On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:58:06 -0400
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> > Doug Pollard <dougpol1 at verizon.net> wrote:
> >> Gettig this error message on after log in
> >> Users home $
> >> user$home / dmrc file is being ignored. This prevents the 
defaultcur/1218496046.21933.UFy9L:2,S
> >> session and language from being saved. File should be owned by user and
> >> have 644 permissions.Users$Home directory must be owned by user writeble
> >> by other users.
> >>
> >>
> >> I have moved files from and external usb drive they are files saved by
> >> windows  I want to store them in my user home  drive.  I then want to
> >> reformat and partition  the usb drive and move clips back into it again
> >> so that I can work and use video clips in it to be used in Cinelerra.
> >>     What I really need is the comands to change the permissions in user
> >> home.  If this doesn't make sense I will try to rewrite for more
> >> clarity.
> >>
> >> This below I think is what I need to change ??
> >>
> >> lrwxrwxrwx  1 foo foo    1 2008-09-05 12:04 ubuntu -> .
> >>                 Thanks Doug
> >
> > Try this:
> >
> > sudo chown /home/USER/file_to_change_permissions_of USER.USER
> >
> > Replace USER with your user name. This will change the above foo foo to
> > your user name
> >
> > - --
> > Charlie Kravetz
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> Should the first user after /home/  be my user name?  I tried ( usr) as
> well. is permissions to be changed to 677 ??  I'm missing something here
> !!  Below is bash response.
>                                         Doug
>
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> chown: invalid user: `/home/user/file_to-change_permissions_of'

The chown syntax was reversed (at least from what I'm used to):
sudo chown [username]:[groupname] [filename]

you'll want to do these, one of them should fix the issue (replace all 
occurrences of [username] with your username):

-This will ensure you own your home directory and all of its contents:
sudo chown -R [username]:[username] /home/[username]

-This will make sure it is not writable by all users:
sudo chmod o-w /home/[username]

-This resets permissions on the .dmrc file in your home directory:
chmod 644 ~/.dmrc

Will

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