Re: Classic Gnubie accident

[Paul E Condon <pecondon@mesanetworks.net>]

On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 12:14:46AM +0000, 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/ vmlinuz@
> 
> of  -aFI /home
> ./ ../ bin/ boot/ cdrom@ dev/ dyne/ etc/ .fonts.cache-1 home/ initrd/
> initrd.img@ lib/ lib64/ lost+found/ media/ mnt/ nano.save nano.save.1
> opt/ proc/ root/ root.choice/ sbin/ srv/ sys/ tmp/ usr/ var/ vmlinuz@
> 
> I'm not clear what that proves apart from that roots home directory is root.
> As it should be as far as I know.
> 
> telling you that it is something else, which for reasons I don't know is
> rejected
> by ?dm.
> 
> >it was gdm which I have now deleted, but I think there is something wrong
> with all the permissions for >the /home/anthony folder
> 
> I have these permissions on /home/anthony my home folder; my username is
> anthony :
> 
> 
total 80 
drw-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-- 9 anthony anthony 4096 2006-10-19 18:27 com 
drw-rw-r-- 6 anthony anthony 4096 2006-10-10 04:52 current_writing 
drw-rw-r-- 2 anthony anthony 4096 2006-09-22 17:59 Desktop 
-rw-rw-r-- 1 anthony anthony 0 2006-10-27 01:43 divx2pass.log 
drw-rw-r-- 19 anthony anthony 8192 2006-10-26 16:39 dl 
drw-rw-r-- 4 anthony anthony 4096 2006-10-27 02:00 film 
drw-rw-r-- 4 anthony anthony 4096 2006-10-17 22:43 images 
drw-rw-r-- 92 anthony anthony 4096 2006-10-26 12:03 music 
drw-rw-r-- 13 anthony anthony 4096 2006-10-25 18:52 mute 
drw-rw-r-- 2 anthony anthony 4096 2006-07-17 22:06 nicotine 
drw-rw-r-- 5 anthony anthony 4096 2006-10-12 23:29 pd
drw-rw-r-- 3 anthony anthony 4096 2006-10-26 18:02 Polly drw-rw-r-- 15
> anthony anthony 4096 2006-09-11 21:07 Projects_Archive drw-rw-r-- 8
> anthony anthony 8192 2006-10-27 15:32 reading drw-rw-r-- 6 anthony
> anthony 4096 2006-10-29 20:06 tech drw-rw-r-- 4 anthony anthony 4096
> 2006-06-28 10:46 use drw-rw-r-- 9 anthony anthony 4096 2006-09-04 23:29
> writing
> 

Your post doesn't show the permissions or ownership of .dmrc 
I believe it is those permissions that are the problem. For
some reason ?dm does not like them to be anything other than 600, 
neither tighter nor looser. Check them.

-- 
Paul E Condon           
pecondon@mesanetworks.net