On Sunday, November 11, 2012 12:42:09 AM Gean Ceretta wrote: > *# chown -Rv gean:gean /home/gean/* This is your trouble. You recursively changed the ownership of everything *in* /home/gean, but you did not change /home/gean itself. Try: chown -Rv gean:gean /home/gean This will also change ownership of all the dot files/dirs (except for ..) in your home dir that your command also missed.