From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 18 13:48:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cletus.cornhusker.net (cletus.cornhusker.net [64.21.192.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0A1C37B419 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 13:48:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from cletus.cornhusker.net (cletus.cornhusker.net [64.21.192.68]) by cletus.cornhusker.net (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g0IGlfG92616 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 16:47:42 GMT (envelope-from deboert@cletus.cornhusker.net) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 16:47:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Tim DeBoer To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: User permissions problem Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi folks, I've got a permissions problem that's driving me insane. Basically, everytime I download something as a user, I get an error message saying "could not change permissions for /home/user/foo.bar" It Happens as both as my primary user, and as my "test" account, but not as root, since root is root I guess. Anyway, how do I fix this? Thanks! -- Tim DeBoer http://www.freebsd-geek.com "When you find yourself in the company of a Halfling and an ill-tempered Dragon, remember, you do not have to outrun the Dragon... ...you just have to outrun the Halfling." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message