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From: Tim DeBoer <deboert@cletus.cornhusker.net>
To: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com>
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Subject: Re: User permissions problem
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Thanks for the suggestion Ryan,
I should have included a bit more info to my original mail, my bad, sorry.
As usual, I was frustrated and didn't stop to relax before posting.
Note to self: Count to 10, count to 10, drink beer, post.

Anyway.
ls -ld /home/user
drwxr-xr-x  22 user  user      1536 Jan 19 12:59 /home/user

Exactly what it should be. Owned by user as well.

That's why this is driving me insane ;)
I just don't see anything wrong with the perms that already exist.

I only get the permissions error when I'm running KDE, and saving
something from a web link via Konquerer.
If I'm in the console, or in an xterm and ftp something in, it works fine.

--

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."

On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Ryan Thompson wrote:

> Tim DeBoer wrote to questions@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"
> 
> Well, the obvious question would be, what is the output of
> 
> ls -ld /home/user
> 
> For "user" to create and modify files, they should really have
> ownership of the directory, and the permissions should probably be set
> to -rwxr-xr-x to allow others to read and search the directory (chmod
> 0755), or -rwx------, to allow only "user" (and root) to access the
> directory (chmod 0700).
> 
> If user doesn't own the directory, chown user /home/user ought to do
> the trick.
> 
> Useful documentation:
> man chown
> man chmod
> man group
> 
> 
> > It Happens as both as my primary user, and as my "test" account, but
> > not as root, since root is root I guess.
> 
> Most (not all) operations as root ignore ownership, and file and
> directory permissions, so root can do just about anything.
> 
> 
> > 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."
> >
> >
> >
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