Can't Save Screenshot due to permissions

Michael Yep myep at remotelink.com
Wed Jun 8 16:28:39 UTC 2005


I have always seen user dirs under home with 700  yourname:yourname, or 
sometimes 750  yourname:users
but I also suspected that the long file name with special characters may 
be a problem, did you try saving it as 1.png ?


Andy Green wrote:

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> Steffen Kluge wrote:
> | On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 08:10 +0100, Andy Green wrote:
> |
> |># ll -d /home
> |>drwxrwxrwx  8 root root 4096 Mar  6 16:53 /home
> |>
> |>Seems that your /home should have 777 permissions to allow
> |>writing/creating underneath it.
> |
> |
> | This is most certainly wrong. Your 777 permissions on /home are far 
> too,
> | err, permissive.
>
> It seems you are right, strange that is the case on two machines here :-(
>
> - -Andy
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