Hello Olle Eriksson (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> In one of my moments last night I thought, why should any of the files > in my home directory need to be world-accessible? I didn't think long > about it before I decided to remove all read, write and execute rights > for world. Before I did that, however (and thank god for that), I > saved all the existing permissions to a file: > > $ find /home/username/ -xdev -printf "%m %p\n" > permissions.txt > > Then: > > $ sudo chmod o-rwx /home/username/* > $ sudo chmod o-rwx /home/username/.* All files in your /home should be yours, so it should be sufficient to run chmod as a user. BTW, you are lucky you didn't run the second chmod with the -R option, like I did a while ago. .* also includes .. > After that, all hell broke lose. I couldn't start any new KDE > application, existing applications complained about insufficient > rights, no temporary or session files could be written etc. I couldn't > even access my home directory after I restarted. Luckily I was able to > restore all previous file permissions with the saved file and got back > into my user account this morning. So, lesson learned. Don't mess with > things you don't need to mess with, make backups, and be less > paranoid. :) > > I think it was the fact that /home lost all world-permissions that > caused all the problems. Would you agree? No. My home folder and everything inside is set to go-rwx. > Secondly, by calling chmod with sudo, all the files owned by root that > I as a user needed to see were now invisible. But they don't seem to > be so many so I am wondering if that had any influence. Aha. So there are files in your home folder, that you need, and that are owned by root? Why? I guess the problem is that they belonged to root. With the restrictive permissions, you could not access them. The change I would make is not to make them world-readable. Instead use chown to change the owner from root to olle. best regards Andreas Janssen -- Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP-Key-ID: 0xDC801674 ICQ #17079270 Registered Linux User #267976 http://www.andreas-janssen.de/debian-tipps.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
