A directory should havae execute permission for everybody as that grants the ability to cd into that directory. Also, you made the directory writable to everyone, which isn't a good idea. In general, 755 or 711 is a good setting for a home directory. I think the lack of execute permission is what tripped you up. Baasically nothing will work if no one can cd or traverse through that directory. HTH --le ----- Original Message ----- From: "tony seth" <lp800@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 11:30 PM Subject: about permissions 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! Cjeerep! -- Email services by FreedomBox. Surf the Net at the sound of your voice. www.freedombox.info _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
