Incoming from Aswin Venkat:
>
> I'm a relative newcomer to debian installation though i have used
> debian for a while. Just recently i installed debian on my
> laptop(2.4.22). Most things are working alright except my file
> permissions are a little haywire. Each time i have to run say a make
> file that creates or removes files in my user directory, i have to run
> sudo make as opposed to just make. Also, if i want to have emacs auto
This sounds very odd. Is this user directory a simple Debian
filesystem or is there something like samba or NFS going on?
Try these:
- What does "ls -ld $HOME" say? Here's mine:
drwxr-xr-x 56 keeling keeling 4096 Feb 29 22:16 /home/keeling
- In your $HOME, do "touch blah", now what does "ls -l blah" say?
-rw-r--r-- 1 keeling keeling 0 Feb 29 22:18 blah
- What does "id" say?
uid=1000(keeling) gid=1000(keeling) groups=1000(keeling),4(adm), \
20(dialout),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio),30(dip),50(staff), \
100(users)
- What does "umask" say?
0022
- What does "mount" say?
[snip]
/dev/hda7 on /home type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
[snip]
> backup my files while i edit them, i have to use sudo. This seems a
> little weird to me because the user(me) has ownership permissions for
> all files in the directory. Is there a way that i can modify some
> setup file so that i can avoid having to use sudo?.
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