about permissions

[Laura Eaves]

A directory should havae execute permission for everybody as that grants the 
ability to cd into that directory.
Also, you made the directory writable to everyone, which isn't a good idea.
In general, 755 or 711 is a good setting for a home directory.
I think the lack of execute permission is what tripped you up.  Baasically 
nothing will work if no one can cd or traverse through that directory.
HTH
--le


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "tony seth" <lp800 at myfreedombox.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 11:30 PM
Subject: about permissions


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!
Cjeerep!

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