On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 09:49:15PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Again: > > chown -R 1000:1000 /home/kaj/ > > as root should fix them all. If it doesn't, chown would seem to be broken.
Looks correct. > Maybe this in addition? > > chown -R 1000:1000 /home/kaj/.* No, NOT correct. Do not do this. .* will expand to .. which will mean you end up chowning all of /home. The chown -R rooted in /home/kaj will include all of the dot files, so you don't need a second step at all. Especially not this one.