permissions issue I think

[G.]

sudo chown spanish:spanish /media/hdb2

I found this at last.  It changed permissions on the Data partition so
I can access the files from the Spanish user.  I still have not found
a way to log in as Gary though.


thanks

gary

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 3:16 PM, G. <pegngaryubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:
> I developed a problem with user 'gary' which is the user I first set
> up when I installed ubuntu 10.10 (upgrade from 10.04). The problem was
> that the wireless would not connect to the connection I had been
> using for some months.  I set up a second user, 'Spanish.'  The
> wireless device connected perfectly.  After some time trying to figure
> out what was wrong with the wireless connection, I decided it would be
> easier just to move the files I had in gary over to Spanish.  Fine, no
> problem.
>
> However, I have most files stored on a partition called Data.  For
> some reason, some of these folders are restricted from use by the user
> Spanish.  I changed the home folder in Spanish to home/gary.  That did
> not help.  I logged in as 'gary' to see if I could change the
> permissions from there, and I get the following two errors:
>
> 1) usr/lib/libconf2-4/gcnonf-sanity-check-2 exited with status 256
> 2) could not update ICEauthority
>
> 1)
> I read http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1587918.  I tried
> changing permissions with sudo chown.  I tried a coupe of other things
> so I could get back into 'gary'
>
> 2)  I tried deleting home/gary/.ICEauthority but file is not found.
>
> I tried several other things with 1 and 2 without success so i need a
> bit of assistance.
>