I favor the shotgun approach, so I would just have root do:
chown -R bev.bev /home/bev
but if root is fastidious, she may prefer:
chown bev.bev /home/bev/.directory
man chown will tell you what I am up to. :-)
Lawson
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On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, CompUTILIZE Services wrote:
> I wrote:
>
> > > anyway, when I logon as "bev" and do startx, i get the KFM
> > > error: could not create ~/.kde/share/apps/kfm/magic
> > >
> > > then i get a blank desktop (well it's got the toolbar at the
> > > bottom) and if i try to run anything (at least anything i've
tried),
> > > nothing happens.
>
> Then Mike responded:
>
> > At a guess you have got wierd permissions and/or ownership on bev's
home
> > directory. ls -al /home/bev and check that everything is owned by bev
- if
> > it isn't use chown to change it. Also check that bev can write to
> > /home/bev/ - use chmod to fix it if not.
> >
> I was so convinced I'd done something as "root" that I
> shouldn't have that I went ahead and reinstalled, but the
> results are the same.
>
> Currently, when I see the following as a result of "ls /home/bev
> -la"
>
> drwx------ bev bev .
> drwxr-xr-x root root ..
> -rw-r--r-- root root .directory
>
> I changed "." to:
> drwxrwxrwx bev bev .
>
> but I still can't right to that directory as Bev. Other than
> .directory, all other subdirectories and/or files in "/home/bev"
> are owned by "bev bev".
>
> i'm obviously missing *something* here. sorry to be such a
> simpleton ;-(
>
> Bev
>
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