about permissions

[Luke Yelavich]

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On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 01:30:16PM EST, tony seth wrote:
> Hi all:  I have made a bit of a mess of my system, and need a bit of 
> help to fix it.  I tried recreating a user, and although that went 
> fine, when I tried to run a program in X, the X server shut down due to 
> permissions not being correct.  I tried correcting this by chmod 666 on 
> the home directory, but now can't log in with my home directory. Can 
> anyone tell me what the correct permissions on the /home directory 
> should be, and also those on a directory of a user within that 
> directory?  Thanks much!

The /home directory should be 755, and at least on my system, it is 
owned by the root user, and the root group. The user directory can also 
be 755, and owned by your username, and your group name, or the users 
group.

I suggest reading the chmod and chown man pages to learn a bit more 
about permissions. The permissions you set on your home directory only 
allow people to read from, and write to that directory, but they can't 
change to that directory.

Hope this helps.
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