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Re: Classic Gnubie accident



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 - 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


I think is should be 644 (that is what mine is).
-rw-r--r-- 1 wpmills wpmills 24 Feb 12  2006 .dmrc

chmod  644 /home/anthony/.dmrc

Paul
begin:vcard
fn:W Paul Mills
n:Mills;W Paul
org:The Mills Chaos In The USA
adr:;;;;;;USA
email;internet:Paul-NOT@Mills-USA.com
note:Hint: remove -NOT
x-mozilla-html:FALSE
url:http://Mills-USA.com
version:2.1
end:vcard


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