On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:52:11 +0100, luxxius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I forgot to add this further info: > > I cannot access the music folder or its subfolders and files unless I > become root (sudo su). I can then see the folders and files. This is > the output of stat on the top level folder: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/diana# stat music > File: `music' > Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 directory > Device: 807h/2055d Inode: 16122206 Links: 69 > Access: (0664/drw-rw-r--) Uid: ( 1000/ diana) Gid: ( 0/ root) > Access: 2007-06-07 10:26:00.000000000 +0100 > Modify: 2007-05-22 15:42:32.000000000 +0100 > Change: 2007-06-07 08:46:51.000000000 +0100 > > I'd be glad of advice about recovering access to the folder tree and > files, as I'm fearful of making matters worse!
Is there a reason why the group needs to be root? if you change the group to "diana" or "users", does that make a difference (it think it might...) Cheers, Matt. -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace Lug-Master (http://www.thanet.lug.org.uk), Dad (http://www.helpmeimadad.com/), Ubuntu User( http://www.ubuntu.com/) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/