On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 06:01 pm, many eyes noted that Anne Wilson wrote:
> A newbie has contacted me for help. So far he has not managed to get
> himself onto the mailing lists, so I'm all he has got for now.
>
> I'm puzzled about his current problem. Obviously a permissions
> problem, but I don't know what questions to ask. Help, anyone?
>
> Anne
>
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>
> Subject: arrrgghhh
> Date: Monday 22 Sep 2003 9:25 pm
> From: philip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> I am using Gnome as my desktop.
> The program says I do not own it, so I found file manager super user
> mode..It did not ask me for my root password, and I can find nothing
> in the directory about gtcam or ownership, it dose however open my
> home folder. Any tips. I will be here a while longer hours I think.
> Its ok my wife is out lol. so no worries about divorce lol.
>
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Anne,
This might be off the mark, never having used gnome, but I wonder what error
messages Philip gets? In /tmp there will be some files that work gnome just
as they work KDE. They should belong to user, and you can either chmod them
or you can chown them. Having had trouble like this in Slackware that didn't
allow me to log into the desktop and X as user. but roots were owned
correctly. I discovered the best was was to chown them and they stayed
chowned. The permissions were changed on each login with chmod, and had to be
either rechmod or deleted, every time. That was Slackware though.
Mandrake might get it right if deleted as root and then enter as user so that
they can be rewritten. They may stick after reboot also?
HTH
Charlie.
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