On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 18:44, Carlton Matthew wrote: > On my other PC I get teh message:- > error trying to start KDE > No write access to '/home/carlton/.ICEauthority' > KDE is unable to start. > > On further investigation, the file appears to be owned by root > how do I change ownership back to carlton? > Thanks In Advance > Carlton
You don't say how you did your 'further investigation' but if it involved becoming root, there's your answer. Root can change it to anyone you like. (If it didn't involve root, then open a console, su and give the root password, then type chown carlton /home/carlton/.ICEauthority That should do it. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels
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