| From: John Jason Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | ... When I logged in I | got an error message: | | "User's $HOME/.dmrc file is being ignored. This prevents the default | session and language from being saved. File should be owned by user and | have 644 permissions. User's $HOME directory must be owned by user and | not writable by other users."
This is asking you the change the data file ~/.dmrc permissions to allow you, the owner, to write it, and to allow everyone to read it. Note: nobody now has permission to execute it (755 would add execute permission for each of: use, group, and other). | Today I finally used it to chmod | my /home/jjj folder to 644 as recommended by the login error message. Instead, you changed the permissions on the home directory. As a directory, the execute permision bits are interpreted as controlling whether an entry can be looked up within the directory (the main use of a directory). You have said: nobody can look up things in this directory. Not very useful. | Then I rebooted the main installation and was not able to log in at | all! I rebooted the rescue installation and changed /home/jjj to 755. | That did it. Now I can log in, and the error message is gone. 755 is probably correct. The paranoid may prefer 750 (preventing non-group members using the directory) or 700 (preventing group members and fellow group members from using the directory). On a notebook you probably don't give logins to folks you don't trust. _______________________________________________ LinuxR3000 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/
