Permissions

[Marek]

Jonathan Marc Bearak wrote:
> realizing i read too quickly...
> 
> If I understand it, all the files in your homedir are owned by another
> user.  (Did you do a reinstall and create users in a different order,
> generating different UIDs?)  The permissions, -rw-r--r--, are correct. 
> You need to chown instead of chmod.  As root run
> chown -R marek:marek /home/marek
> 
> On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 01:16, Jonathan Marc Bearak wrote:
> 
>>recursive switch:
>>chmod -R u+w ~
>>
>>On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 00:10, Marek wrote:
>>
>>>Hi
>>>
>>>My home dir permissions have got a bit tangled up.
>>>
>>>/home/marek has the correct permissions. But all the dir under that are 
>>>user 501 (-rw-r--r--) and i can not write to them.
>>>
>>>I have tried setting the permissions with konqueror but it always gets 
>>>stuck with some file that cannot be changed.
>>>
>>>Is there a command line to do this all in one shot. Instead of doing 
>>>chmod 777 on each dir which only seems to work. 755 does not and chmod 
>>>777 /home/marek does not either. 777 seems to be incorrect anyway.
>>>
>>>Marek
>>>
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Thanx guys that did the trick. :-)

Marek