On Sun, 02 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> Dear Civilme and friends:
>
> There might well be a permissions problem. .Xauthority has "root" for
> permissions, while everything else in my /home/sher directory has
> "sher". (and I have not yet installed anything into it. It is a blank
> "sher" directory with only "Desktop" and "http" directories in it, if I
> recall (I am writing from Windows).
>
> I now recall distinctly that this morning when I noticed this, I went
> into KDE by su to root (no problem with getting into KDE with root.
> Everything works fine). I then went into the File Manager (remember I
> was root) and changed permission on .Xauthority from "root" to "sher"
> and logged out. But I could never really change the permissions. Every
> time I went back to KDE as root and checked, .Xauthority's permissions
> returned to "root." Should I do this in the console using a manual
> command? If so, which command would be best, please? I am just afraid
> that I am going to mess things up again.
>
>From a *console*, as root, try "chown sher.sher .Xauthority"
and see if that allows "sher" to log into KDE.
John
