Locked out of my user account

Mariano Jara Melagrani mjaramelagrani at gmail.com
Wed Jun 18 21:20:44 UTC 2014


On 18 June 2014 02:53, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
> Mariano Jara Melagrani wrote:
>> Ok, I'll keep that in mind in case nothing else works out, but I'll
>> keep trying to fix this account, there has to be a cause and a
>> solution to this problem.
>
> Did you check the permissions of the files in "$HOME"? The problem could
> be files owned by root which are not writeable by the original user.

Hi Nils, I've just checked them and there are three of them with root
as the owner.

drwxr-xr-x   7 root    root      4096 ene 22 19:09 ..
-rw-------   1 root    root      4984 jun 13 17:46 .viminfo
-rw-------   1 root    root       284 jun 13 17:28 .Xauthority

Should I change the ownership of the last two ones? I don't recall
ever changing them to root.




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