Thanks Jochen,
I think your mail made several reasonable points and contrary to what
you say, I find it perfectly coherent.
Its a tricky position to be in flailing around in a panic trying to
fix a system you need to be able to work and seeing the time, or
possibility of things being put back
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 11:57:00AM +, anthony wrote:
Thanks Jochen,
I think your mail made several reasonable points and contrary to what
you say, I find it perfectly coherent.
Its a tricky position to be in flailing around in a panic trying to
fix a system you need to be able to work
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 03:20:49PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:
From: Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I was also confused by this sub-thread, so I tried to research the
girlfriend issue:
$ apt-cache search girlfriend
psad - The Port Scan Attack Detector
$ apt-cache show psad | grep -i
Ron Johnson:
On 10/30/06 03:04, Jochen Schulz wrote:
It's not that I don't know how to start X from a console. But I (almost)
always need X anyway. And apart from that, I have a non-geek
girlfriend[1] using my computer from time to time.
My wife was *easily* trained not to fear the
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Ron Johnson:
On 10/30/06 03:04, Jochen Schulz wrote:
It's not that I don't know how to start X from a console. But I (almost)
always need X anyway. And apart from that, I have a non-geek
girlfriend[1] using
Ron Johnson writes:
My wife was *easily* trained not to fear the black text screen...
Heh. Mine hates GUIs. It was only a few years ago that I dragged her away
from Mailx and got her to start using Mutt. She uses Firefox for the Web
but complains about it.
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Ron Johnson:
On 10/31/06 05:08, Jochen Schulz wrote:
Ron Johnson:
Certainly your GF can be similarly trained.
Well, at least not by me. I still have a hard time teaching her about
the concept of files and folders. :) And what I actually find more
important is that she grasps GUI
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Ron Johnson:
On 10/31/06 05:08, Jochen Schulz wrote:
Ron Johnson:
Certainly your GF can be similarly trained.
Well, at least not by me. I still have a hard time teaching her about
the concept of files and
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Ron Johnson writes:
My wife was *easily* trained not to fear the black text screen...
Heh. Mine hates GUIs. It was only a few years ago that I dragged her away
from Mailx and got her to start using Mutt.
So, happy as I am that you guys found an excuse to chat about your
respective girlfriends here, I think mine would prefer I talked to her
a bit rather than staring at a screen uttering expletives, so I took
the easy route, made another user, transferred the settings and files
over from
anthony wrote:
So, happy as I am that you guys found an excuse to chat about your
respective girlfriends here, I think mine would prefer I talked to her
a bit rather than staring at a screen uttering expletives, so I took
the easy route, made another user, transferred the settings and files
over
Kent West wrote:
anthony wrote:
I'd like to know what exactly happened and perhaps to get my user
(anthony) and my settings back iat some point so, what should the
permissions be for all the settings (invisible) files in my home
directory /anthony/home ? Are they each different?
To get your
anthony [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, happy as I am that you guys found an excuse to chat about your
respective girlfriends here, I think mine would prefer I talked to her
a bit rather than staring at a screen uttering expletives, so I took
the easy route, made another user, transferred the
[Disclaimer: writing this mail took some time and I frequently jumped
from topic to topic. Please excuse me if it doesn't appear to be very
coherent.]
anthony:
So, happy as I am that you guys found an excuse to chat about your
respective girlfriends here, I think mine would prefer I talked
Andrei Popescu wrote:
anthony [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, happy as I am that you guys found an excuse to chat about your
respective girlfriends here, I think mine would prefer I talked to her
a bit rather than staring at a screen uttering expletives, so I took
the easy route, made another
Ron Johnson:
On 10/29/06 15:57, Jochen Schulz wrote:
Ron Johnson:
And then purge xdm, gdm, kdm and log in like a Real Geek.
Real geeks may still have their terminals running under X. :)
startx is your friend.
It's not that I don't know how to start X from a console. But I (almost)
Hi there, I don't have a problem getting at the files, booting single user or into a failsafe terminal as myself (username=anthony) the problem is exactly how to correctly 'check/fix owner/permissions until you are happy.'
I just need to know what ownership and permissions my /home/anthony folder
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Ron Johnson:
On 10/29/06 15:57, Jochen Schulz wrote:
Ron Johnson:
And then purge xdm, gdm, kdm and log in like a Real Geek.
Real geeks may still have their terminals running under X. :)
startx is your
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On 10/30/06 05:14, anthony wrote:
Hi there,
I don't have a problem getting at the files, booting single user or into a
failsafe terminal as myself (username=anthony) the problem is exactly
how to
correctly 'check/fix owner/permissions until you
So from failsafe terminal, after login[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$ cd /home/anthony/bash: cd: /home/anthony/: Permission denied[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$ pwd/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$ iduid=1000(anthony) gid=1000(anthony) groups=20(dialout),24(cdrom),25(floppy),$
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$ ls -l
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So
from failsafe terminal, after login
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$ cd /home/anthony/
bash: cd: /home/anthony/: Permission denied
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$ pwd
/
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$ id
uid=1000(anthony)
anthony:
I don't have a problem getting at the files, booting single user or into a
failsafe terminal as myself (username=anthony) the problem is exactly how to
correctly 'check/fix owner/permissions until you are happy.'
You only need chown, chmod and ls.
# chown -R anthony:anthony
how to set these permissions?On 10/30/06, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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[EMAIL
Thank youOn 10/30/06, Jochen Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
anthony: I don't have a problem getting at the files, booting single user or into a failsafe terminal as myself (username=anthony) the problem is exactly how to correctly 'check/fix owner/permissions until you are happy.'
You only need
Ron Johnson wrote:
I'd there's a higher probability of creating new geeks if existing
geeks reproduce.
What is this reproduce of which you speak? Is that a new utility
similar to cp?
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On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 07:36:41 -0600, Kent West wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
I'd there's a higher probability of creating new geeks if existing
geeks reproduce.
What is this reproduce of which you speak? Is that a new utility
similar to cp?
I was also confused by this sub-thread, so I
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 07:36:41AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
I'd there's a higher probability of creating new geeks if existing
geeks reproduce.
What is this reproduce of which you speak? Is that a new utility
similar to cp?
More like fork.
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yep, this was the sensible thing to do, but probably got lost in the noiseDon't say!
Log in as root. Then:# cd /home# chmod 755 anthony# exitLog in again, now as anthony.thinking:/home/anthony# chown -R anthony:anthony /home/anthonythinking:/home/anthony# chmod 755 /home/anthony
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Ron Johnson:
On 10/29/06 15:21, anthony wrote:
[snip]
And then purge xdm, gdm, kdm and log in like a Real Geek.
Real geeks may still have their terminals
anthony wrote:
one other clue is that I cannot save text files logged in as anthony
(i get a no space left on device error) but I can as root in the same
directory
Ah, then perhaps you're out of drive space on that partition. (*nix
leaves a small buffer available for root to write to, which
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 10:52:43AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
anthony wrote:
one other clue is that I cannot save text files logged in as anthony
(i get a no space left on device error) but I can as root in the same
directory
Ah, then perhaps you're out of drive space on that partition.
What's the result of df -h? I'm using 94% of the disk. I have deleted some stuff. I triedchmod -R 775 /home/anthonyand this allowed me to access files in my directory and some of my personal settings
e.g. pal (calendar) I could start X but not fluxbox. What should the permissions be for all the
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 09:27:40AM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote:
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 07:36:41AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
I'd there's a higher probability of creating new geeks if existing
geeks reproduce.
What is this reproduce of which you speak? Is that a new
Hello I'm embarrassed to admit this, but after using various flavours of debian for over a year 've managed to lock myself out of my /home directory. When I log in I get the message - your home directory .dmrc file has the wrong permissions - permissions should be set to 664
(its actually the
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On 10/29/06 15:21, anthony wrote:
Hello
I'm embarrassed to admit this, but after using various flavours of
debian for over a year 've managed to lock myself out of my /home
directory. When I log in I get the message - your home directory .dmrc
Ron Johnson:
On 10/29/06 15:21, anthony wrote:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 anthony anthony 26 2006-09-21 18:56 /home/anthony/.dmrc
but the login message is the same.
Look into ~/.xsession-errors, maybe there's more info.
And BTW, my ~/.dmrc is 600:
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anthony wrote:
Hello
I'm embarrassed to admit this, but after using various flavours of
debian for over a year 've managed to lock myself out of my /home
directory. When I log in I get the message - your home directory .dmrc
file has the wrong permissions - permissions should be set to 664
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On 10/29/06 15:57, Jochen Schulz wrote:
Ron Johnson:
On 10/29/06 15:21, anthony wrote:
[snip]
And then purge xdm, gdm, kdm and log in like a Real Geek.
Real geeks may still have their terminals running under X. :)
startx is your friend.
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I can get root access thru the failsafe terminal mode, but I still don't really get what is up. if I changed the permissions as myself, why cannot reset them as myself or as root?I don't have a cd drive, but I can boot from usb.
So far it sounds like the easiest thing is to make another user cp
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 09:21:19PM +, anthony wrote:
Hello
I'm embarrassed to admit this, but after using various flavours of debian for
over a year 've managed to lock myself out of my /home directory. When I log
in
I get the message - your home directory .dmrc file has the wrong
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On 10/29/06 16:22, anthony wrote:
I can get root access thru the failsafe terminal mode, but I still don't
really get what is up. if I changed the permissions as myself, why
cannot reset them as myself or as root?
What exactly did you chown and/or
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 05:51:43PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 09:21:19PM +, anthony wrote:
Hello
I'm embarrassed to admit this, but after using various flavours of debian
for
over a year 've managed to lock myself out of my /home directory. When I
log in
Hello The result (as root) of ls -aFI /
./ ../ bin/ boot/ cdrom@ dev/ dyne/ etc/ .fonts.cache-1 home/ initrd/
initrd.img@ lib/ lib64/ lost+found/ media/ mnt/ nano.save opt/ proc/
root/ root.choice/ sbin/ srv/ sys/ tmp/ usr/ var/ vmlinuz@
of -aFI /home
./ ../ bin/ boot/ cdrom@ dev/ dyne/ etc/
Your listing ran all together; perhaps you posted HTML?
anthony wrote:
I have these permissions on /home/anthony my home folder; my username
is anthony :
total 80drw-rw-r-- 11 anthony anthony 4096 2006-10-24 16:51 audio
drw-rw-r-- 2 anthony anthony 4096 2006-10-19 13:36 background drw-rw-r--
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 01:40:39PM -0800, Jeff Goodman wrote:
anthony wrote:
Hello
I'm embarrassed to admit this, but after using various flavours of
debian for over a year 've managed to lock myself out of my /home
directory. When I log in I get the message - your home directory .dmrc
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 12:14:46AM +, anthony wrote:
Hello
The result (as root) of ls -aFI /
./ ../ bin/ boot/ cdrom@ dev/ dyne/ etc/ .fonts.cache-1 home/ initrd/
initrd.img@ lib/ lib64/ lost+found/ media/ mnt/ nano.save opt/ proc/
root/ root.choice/ sbin/ srv/ sys/ tmp/ usr/ var/
anthony wrote:
Hello
I'm embarrassed to admit this, but after using various flavours of
debian for over a year 've managed to lock myself out of my /home
directory. When I log in I get the message - your home directory .dmrc
file has the wrong permissions - permissions should be set to 664
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