-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/29/06 15:21, anthony wrote: > Hello > > I'm embarrassed to admit this, but after using various flavours of > debian for over a year 've managed to lock myself out of my /home > directory. When I log in I get the message - your home directory .dmrc > file has the wrong permissions - permissions should be set to 664 > > (its actually the whole /home directory that has the wrong permissions) > > I have tried logging in to a failsafe terminal and fixing this by using > chown username /home/anthony/.dmrc > > the file now has these permissions: > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 anthony anthony 26 2006-09-21 18:56 /home/anthony/.dmrc > > but the login message is the same. > > I am reading the debian manual on file permissions, but I don't see an > obvious way to reset this especially since I only have access to this > file as root. > > Any help much appreciated
This is (one reason) why I don't like GUI login managers. If you have a boot CD, fire it up and go from there. And then purge xdm, gdm, kdm and log in like a Real Geek. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFRR9OS9HxQb37XmcRAhrVAKC58eFSl5wiNtri8TEUamZXoCj3dACeOeYp jPGU7UI+cH9+Ep2Xr5d9obM= =LAG+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]