WG: No permissions on home folder?

Gerald Stermsek gerald.stermsek at wu-wien.ac.at
Fri Jun 18 08:22:14 UTC 2004


> Did you add user gerald to group root? Revert it, no need for that. Use
> "su -" or "sudo" instead.

User gerald was in group root. After removal the symbols changed after
re-login. With FC1 I had no problems with that configuration. What's the
reason for that strange behavior?

> As other answers already said, chmodding 750 to all content of $HOME is
> not what is suggested in any way. Though such changes is not necessary
> in your case, you may memorize the usage of find:
> 
> find /path/under/which/you/want/change/ -type d -exec chmod 750 {} \;
> find /path/under/which/you/want/change/ -type -f -exec chmod 640 {} \;

worked fine, thanks

Gerald






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