hello, never, never do : chmod -R o+r .* anywhere. (I do it in /home). After doing this as root, I lose a lot of right acces every were for users. user can't use bash, profile dir, libreadline lib ..... is there a way to solve this ? using apt-get and force to download all my package and to install them again ? (but how?) Thanks. My sys : potato + kernel2.2.5