On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 02:35 pm, many eyes noted that Mike Adolf wrote: > Sometimes linux looses it. > I added a second user using userdrake. When I tried to logon to the new > account. I get "No Write Permission on HOME " KDE can't start. SO, > although the new home has the same permissions as my home, I change the > permission to 777 on new HOME. Tried to log on again (without rebooting), > and it worked. I thought, OK problem solved. Wrong! After I rebooted, it > got the same error, THE PERMISSONS WERE SET BACK TO ORIGINAL VALUES!! I > repeated the chmod again just to make sure I wasn't nuts. I wasn't. > > I opened userdrake and it had the userid = 500 and groupid = 500. BUT doing > an ls -l on /home shows that the new home has user and group both 502 ???? > > Linux has almost defeated me! > mike.
try chown -cv mike: /home/mike ****or whatever it is supposed to be******* See how that works? Charlie -- And all the loveliest things that there be Come simply, so it seems to me. Edna St. Vincent Millay This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.1, Kmail v1.5 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0
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