Desktop folders are read only now

[Fritz Whittington]

On or about 2004-09-07 13:13, Steve whipped out a trusty #2 pencil and 
scribbled:

>On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 00:45, Scott Talbot wrote:
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>>On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 13:20 -0400, John & Christine wrote:
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>>>On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 02:13:06 -0700, Steve <steve.bolam at telus.net> wrote:
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>>>>Tonight I was installing some goodies with yum and operating as root at
>>>>times.  Now when I log in as myself, the Computer, Trash and My Home
>>>>folders have become read only. What have I done, and how do I fix it.
>>>>
>>>>I've only had Linux installed for a week and I thought I was getting the
>>>>hang of it. Guess this is another reality check.
>>>>
>>>>Thanx in advance,
>>>>
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>>>Use Nautilus and look at the owner/permissions of one of the
>>>now-read-only files/folders. (right click/properties/Permissions). If
>>>it looks like the problem is permissions/ownership, open a terminal ,
>>>su , nautilus again and fix the permissions.
>>>John
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>>	A faster way of doing this is to open the terminal, su to root then
>>enter at the # prompt: "chown -R --from=root:root mylogin:mylogin ~*"
>>(without the quotation marks!).  This will find every file (-R) in your
>>home directory that has permissions set to owner=root, group=root, and
>>change them to your login name on both the owner and group.
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>>For more info about chown use man chown at the terminal prompt.
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>>HTH 
>>
>>Scott
>>-- 
>>When in doubt -- Vote 'Em out!
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>>[root at d207-81-8-112 bigdaddy]# chown -R --from=root:root bigdaddy:bigdaddy ~*
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>chown: cannot access `~*': No such file or directory
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There should not be an * at the end of that line, just ~.

compare:
[/]$ls  ~
and
 [/]$ls  ~/*

-- 
Fritz Whittington
"You need only two tools. WD-40 and duct tape. If it doesn't move and
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