Locked out of my user account

[C de-Avillez]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Mariano Jara Melagrani
<mjaramelagrani at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

You can just delete the .Xauthority file, it will be recreated. It was
probably created because you ran something like 'sudo startx'.

For the .viminfo file... chown it back to you.

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