-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, 2010-03-01 at 09:20 -0000, Bob Williams wrote:
Yes, that's what I thought. The thunderbird/Mail is on my wife's laptop (which I've just converted from Windows to openSUSE ;) ). The backup is an rsnapshot instance running as root on my desktop, and backing up her data across the LAN to my machine. All her documents come over without a problem, but I get 'Permission denied' messages on a lot of her ~/.folders (hidden folders, if you missed the dot), including some of the thunderbird subfolders.
The permissions on these folders are drwx------, and I thought that giving the group read permissions might be what was needed.
No, you need to chown all the files you restored as the user she will run as. Something like: find /home/USERNAME/ -type f -exec chown USERNAME:users '{}' \; find /home/USERNAME/ -type f -exec chmod u+r+w,g+r-w,o-r-w '{}' \; find /home/USERNAME/ -type d -exec chmod u+x+r+x,g+r+x '{}' \; mutandis mutandi :-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkuMV80ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VnegCePOnuqEMtQcSmtHx5G+KV+e+H 6z4Ani6VHlvTWriV6mPr0LI5RW+rifGQ =eSLJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org