From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 15 21:51: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46FD343CD for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 21:50:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from nwlink.com (ip164.r3.d.bel.nwlink.com [207.202.172.164]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA06867; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 21:51:21 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <38AA39BC.F6DF7556@nwlink.com> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 21:46:36 -0800 From: R Joseph Wright X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ryan Thompson Cc: Bharat Mediratta , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: user account gone awry References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ryan Thompson wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, R Joseph Wright wrote: > > > The permissions of /usr/home are dr--r--r-- root wheel. How does one go > > about changing permissions on a directory anyhow? > > That could well be your problem :-) Directories need the execute (x) bit > for regular users to fetch directory contents. Ahaa.. I wonder how that happened. Now, I'm logging in allright, but I've got this pesky file or directory '\'. I cannot seem to delete it. I think it's related to this whole issue. Also, now when I log in, instead of my prompt showing joseph@mammalia:~$ I get joseph@mammalia:/usr/home/joseph$ How annoying! How to fix such a thing? I'm in bash, btw. > > man chmod > > If you don't like reading: > > chmod 755 /usr/home Seemed like I couldn't make that work before, but after you said to do it like that, it worked. All I needed was faith in a guru =) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message