On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 09:21:19PM +0000, 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 - why is your home directory not '/home/anthony'? > permissions should be set to 664 > > (its actually the whole /home directory that has the wrong permissions) > > I have tried logging in to a failsafe terminal and fixing this by using chown > username /home/anthony/.dmrc > > the file now has these permissions: > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 anthony anthony 26 2006-09-21 18:56 /home/anthony/.dmrc > > but the login message is the same. > > I am reading the debian manual on file permissions, but I don't see an obvious > way to reset this especially since I only have access to this file as root. > > Any help much appreciated exactly what did you do that lead to this? Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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