-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 01:30:16PM EST, tony seth wrote: > Hi all: I have made a bit of a mess of my system, and need a bit of > help to fix it. I tried recreating a user, and although that went > fine, when I tried to run a program in X, the X server shut down due to > permissions not being correct. I tried correcting this by chmod 666 on > the home directory, but now can't log in with my home directory. Can > anyone tell me what the correct permissions on the /home directory > should be, and also those on a directory of a user within that > directory? Thanks much! The /home directory should be 755, and at least on my system, it is owned by the root user, and the root group. The user directory can also be 755, and owned by your username, and your group name, or the users group. I suggest reading the chmod and chown man pages to learn a bit more about permissions. The permissions you set on your home directory only allow people to read from, and write to that directory, but they can't change to that directory. Hope this helps. - -- Luke Yelavich GPG key: 0xD06320CE (http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt) Email & MSN: themuso at themuso.com ICQ: 18444344 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCnTnFjVefwtBjIM4RAg7AAJ9mb491i+uQ4bSun20/SiyCbCMaBACbB8iw 8iNepRIS65mN58O/VO9kmfw= =LOwv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
