[NTLUG:Discuss] Can you tell I'm a newbie?

[Peter Koren]

Greg Edwards wrote:
> 
> Wayne,
> 
> I don't use Nautilus so I can't speak directly to those.
> 
> When you look at your directory "/home/yourname" what are the owner and
> group settings.  From a console window you can enter "ll" or "ls -l" and
> you'll see the owner and group ids.  If they aren't you then this is
> where you'll need to start.
> 
> As root enter "cd /home"
> 
> Enter "chown -R yourname:yourname yourname", where yourname is the login
> name your using.
> 
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Actually, you can drop the second appearance of "yourname" as in

	chown -R yourname: yourname

The group name defaults to the user name if the former is omitted.
	
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> This will make you the owner and group of all the files in "/home/yourname".
> 
> You can also as root from /home enter "chmod -R u+rw yourname" to insure
> that all files are read/write accessible by the owner, that's you.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 

Regards,

Pete Koren