From satan@nfinity.com Wed Apr 1 04:17:48 1998
From: satan@nfinity.com
To: users@lists.opensuse.org
Subject: [S.u.S.E. Linux] home directory ownership
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 22:17:48 -0600
Message-ID: <3521BFEC.E6C51E62@nfinity.com>
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This is odd. Last night netscape wouldn't let me save a file because I
didn't have permission. I didn't have a clue, so I pulled up rxvt,
su'ed, cd .., chown -R satan satan and chgrp -R users satan, then
netscape downloaded the file without protest. Now I just tried to
download a file 24 hours later and netscape said I didn't have
permission. So I pulled up rxvt and cd .. to /home, and my user
directory which should have been satan users was root root. What did I
screw up and how do I fix it? Why would the ownership of my user
directory change to root without me doing so?
Thanks in advance, I'm puzzled by this.
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From leonmcclatchey@homemail.com Thu Apr 2 01:51:44 1998
From: leonmcclatchey@homemail.com
To: users@lists.opensuse.org
Subject: Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] home directory ownership
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 19:51:44 -0600
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Michael Lankton wrote:
This is odd. Last night netscape wouldn't let
me save a file because I
didn't have permission. I didn't have a clue, so I pulled up
rxvt,
su'ed, cd .., chown -R satan satan and chgrp -R users satan, then
netscape downloaded the file without protest. Now I just tried
to
download a file 24 hours later and netscape said I didn't have
permission. So I pulled up rxvt and cd .. to /home, and my user
directory which should have been satan users was root root. What
did I
screw up and how do I fix it? Why would the ownership of my user
directory change to root without me doing so?
Thanks in advance, I'm puzzled by this.
Well, when I run into that problem, (I do everything on the internet out
of xfree), I just pull up the root window, go to the directory that
I am trying to save the file in and check the permissions on that directory. =
Usually, the directory is set up owner root and group root, well, I just
keep the ownerships the same (I'm a member of the group root) and enable
the write for that group. (664:=3D)
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cya l8r
Leon McClatchey
mailto:leonmcclatchey@homemail=
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Party on Linux:-)
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