[Gllug] startx broken !

Bruce Richardson itsbruce at workshy.org
Tue Sep 12 07:47:58 UTC 2006


On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 08:28:58AM +0100, Mark wrote:
> >  
> Given that it's /home/foo you can't write too, try (as root)
> 
> cd /home
> for i in * ; do chown -R $i:$i $i ; done

It would probably be safer to do "chown -R i: $i" which will set the
group ownership of the primary group of whichever user is $i.


-- 
Bruce

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