On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Gora Mohanty <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 2 May 2009 20:18:30 +0530 > tabankg <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The output of "ls -ld ~" provides: > > > > drwxrwxrwx 66 kgnile kgnile 4096 2009-05-02 19:14 /home/kgnile > [...] > > That is the problem then. Your home directory is writable > by anyone on the system, which is a big security issue, > and should definitely be fixed, independent of your current > problem. >
Sorry I missed seeing the 'w's there - of course, that is most likely the problem. Apologies for the confusion :-) -Sanjay > > Change this with > chmod 700 ~ > or, if you wish to allow others to read and view things in > your home directory, > chmod 755 ~ > > Regards, > Gora > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in >
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