permissions

[Doug Pollard]

William Witt wrote:
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> On Friday 05 September 2008 19:42:17 Doug Pollard wrote:
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> > 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:
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> > >> Gettig this error message on after log in
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> > >> Users home $
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> > >> user$home / dmrc file is being ignored. This prevents the 
> defaultcur/1218496046.21933.UFy9L:2,S
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> > >> session and language from being saved. File should be owned by 
> user and
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> > >> have 644 permissions.Users$Home directory must be owned by user 
> writeble
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> > >> by other users.
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> > >>
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> > >> I have moved files from and external usb drive they are files 
> saved by
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> > >> windows I want to store them in my user home drive. I then want to
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> > >> reformat and partition the usb drive and move clips back into it 
> again
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> > >> so that I can work and use video clips in it to be used in Cinelerra.
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> > >> What I really need is the comands to change the permissions in user
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> > >> home. If this doesn't make sense I will try to rewrite for more
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> > >> clarity.
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> > >>
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> > >> This below I think is what I need to change ??
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> > >>
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> > >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 foo foo 1 2008-09-05 12:04 ubuntu -> .
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> > >> Thanks Doug
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> > >
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> > > Try this:
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> > > sudo chown /home/USER/file_to_change_permissions_of USER.USER
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> > >
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> > > Replace USER with your user name. This will change the above foo 
> foo to
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> > > your user name
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> > > - --
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> > > Charlie Kravetz
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> > > Linux Registered User Number 425914 [http://counter.li.org/]
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> > > Never let anyone steal your DREAM. [http://keepingdreams.com]
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> > Should the first user after /home/ be my user name? I tried ( usr) as
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> > well. is permissions to be changed to 677 ?? I'm missing something here
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> > !! Below is bash response.
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> > Doug
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> > chown: invalid user: `/home/user/file_to-change_permissions_of'
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> The chown syntax was reversed (at least from what I'm used to):
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> sudo chown [username]:[groupname] [filename]
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> you'll want to do these, one of them should fix the issue (replace all 
> occurrences of [username] with your username):
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> -This will ensure you own your home directory and all of its contents:
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> sudo chown -R [username]:[username] /home/[username]
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> -This will make sure it is not writable by all users:
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> sudo chmod o-w /home/[username]
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> -This resets permissions on the .dmrc file in your home directory:
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> chmod 644 ~/.dmrc
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> Will
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Below is what I typed in and bash reply.

doug at Linux-desktop:~$ sudo chown -R doug:doug /home/doug
chown: cannot access `/home/doug/.gvfs': Permission denied
doug at Linux-desktop:~$
                         Thanks Doug