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Re: [debian-knoppix] No write permission to ~/.ICEauthority



Have you tried:

chown -R username /home/username
chgrp -R username /home/username

This should return all permissions of your home directory to the user. 
This would be the solution if somehow permissions to a /home directory were
changed.

Another idea -- as root, try to add a user, then log on as that user.  That
should tell you if the problem is only with a specific user or all users.

Shawn

On 7/17/2003 - 08:36:42, "la@via-rs.net" said:
> Hi all:
> 
> I am a user of knoppix version of Debian.
> 
> I have been facing this problem since a send an dpkg -a command (during
an apt-get update..).
> 
> I can only login in graphic mode as root user. If I log onto "normal"
user a get the message
> "No write access to /home/user/.ICEauthority".
> 
> The other message that comes after it is "Couldn´t start ksmserver. Check
your installation".
> 
> I´ve realize that .ICEauthority file has root:group permissions (with no
write permissions at all). I have changed this 
> with chmod +w and chown to user:user with no effects.
> The system insist to return this file to root:group permissions.
> I´ve since tried to delete this file. It returns again with the same
features.
> 
> Any clues?
> 
> I´ve found some posting saying to recover it by a script (sudo chown or
chmod) but where must I put it? In startx file?
> 
> What causes it?
> 
> Best regards...
> 
> 
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