permissions problems

thekillerbean · n00b Joined: 24 Jul 2002 Posts: 29

something has happened since my install of gentoo as i can no longer create files in my home directory. would anyone happen to know what could be wrong? i tried the following:

tomas · n00b Joined: 05 Jul 2002 Posts: 62 Location: Sweden

Run ls -ld $HOME to check that ownership and permissions are correct. Your umask sounds correct to me.
I'm not sure how it happened (that you can't create files in your home directory), but it should be easy enough to fix with chown and/or chmod.

thekillerbean · n00b Joined: 24 Jul 2002 Posts: 29

okay, i just did what you asked and now i see the following:

tomas · n00b Joined: 05 Jul 2002 Posts: 62 Location: Sweden

That says that root is owner of your home directory. It should say:

thekillerbean · n00b Joined: 24 Jul 2002 Posts: 29

fixed - thank you tomas! i did the chown and now all is well.

would the shutdown have caused change of ownership during a run of fsck? i did see that fsck was run when system was coming up but did not think much of it. when i found my machine off i though that i had turned it off gracefully before going to bed last night - turned out it was an outage as the microwave had a time of 0 on it.

JeroenV · Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2002 11:01 pm Post subject:

No, not correct.
If it's bean's home-dir, it should be owned by bean.
So do:
(while in /home and logged in as root)
# chown -R bean.users bean
that should give you a dir like this:
drwxr-xr-x 2 bean users 40 Jul 24 10:12 /home/bean

This is pretty basic linux stuff, you might want to read some more about simple linux system administration. It will save you a lot of surprises...

good luck
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thekillerbean · n00b Joined: 24 Jul 2002 Posts: 29

i'm actually pretty conversant as a user, only never really had to deal much with permissions at this level. i do agree - a little (well, alot) more reading is in order.

however, since things were okay before the premature shutdown, would the fsck run have changed ownership in order to fix the filesystem - had it needed fixing?

JeroenV · Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2002 11:14 pm Post subject:

I've heard about strange things happening to the fs after crashes, most of the problems being wrong permissions. I have no technical explanation, however.
Btw, I'm a happy user of the xfs filesystem for about 2 weeks now

Maybe that one's more robust?

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thekillerbean · n00b Joined: 24 Jul 2002 Posts: 29

i'm also using xfs (!!!)

Lockup · Guru Joined: 25 Jul 2002 Posts: 430

heh getting the same prob, only that for me its the *root* dir that cant be written to
just noticed while kde was emerging, saw loads of lines that said "creating /root/BLA[...]" Error: no permission
im gonna let it finish compiling though to see if itll still work...