Craig White wrote: > On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 03:17 +0000, Dale Farnsworth wrote: > >>In article <20060325235347.CEVS17437.fed1rmmtao12.cox.net@[172.18.180.8]> bmike101@cox.net wrote: >> >>>>Mike could/should provide more information. >>> >>>root@2[home]# ls -ld / /home /home/bmike1 /home/ >>>bmike1/.bashrc >>>drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 2006-03-25 >>>07:00 / >>>drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2006-02-21 >>>19:56 /home >>>drwxrwxrwx 55 bmike1 bmike1 4096 2006-03-24 >>>22:41 /home/bmike1 >>>-rw-rw-rw- 1 bmike1 bmike1 123 2006-02-21 >> >>The permissions of /home/bmike1 are obviously wrong. >> >>This is one of those rare times when the original error message >>pointed precisely at the problem. > > ---- > ;-) > > chmod -R +x /home > > (optional) > chmod -R g-w,o-w /home/bmike1 > # but I think you are a one user system so it probably doesn't matter > > Craig > Sounds to me too like a permissions problem. Simple solution might be to create user 'bmike2', then see what things should look like. Then either continue to use bmike2 as your normal user and delete bmike1, or change directory permissions of bmike1 to match bmike2 and then delete bmike2. Whatever you do, don't go changing permissions of bmike2 (or higher) directory tree and you should be fine. Meddling with permissions is generally not something you should need to mess with (or be messing with). Just mho. -- -Eric 'shubes' **************************************************** This message has been scanned using Contraxx Technology Group mail server v8.0.3 and is virus free. Message sent from Mail Server 3 **************************************************** --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss