[arch-general] Permissions Problem possibly
Afternoon all Having a whole hoard of issues that seem like they MAY be permissions related . Is there a hard and fast set of permission attributes that can be set as a default for a user at them moment everything in my user is set name users with the bulk of the permissions set -rw-r--r-- or drwxr-xr-x for a directory i know a lot of you use the numeric system i am not sure of it I get problems such as system settings do not stick libreofice complains about backup files some things work some play up or fail completely Kaffeine for one just bombs out i believe this is a permissions thing but cant find any usefull info as to exactly what should be what if you follow . A litte assistance would be very useful as i do not fancy doing a reinstall i have too much stuff to reinstall Thanks Pete
Op ma 6 jul. 2020 13:15 schreef pete via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org>:
Afternoon all
Having a whole hoard of issues that seem like they MAY be permissions related .
Is there a hard and fast set of permission attributes that can be set as a default for a user at them moment everything in my user is set name users with the bulk of the permissions set -rw-r--r-- or drwxr-xr-x for a directory i know a lot of you use the numeric system i am not sure of it
[...] Reinstalling probably wouldn't make a difference here, so let's try to focus. When you say "everything in my user", do you mean your users home directory? Mortal users usually can't write outside $HOME (with exceptions like /tmp etc), so that shouldn't be a problem. Can you post the output of: $ id $ ls -l $HOME (Where "$ " stands for the user prompt, not to be typed in) mvg, Guus Snijders
On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 17:23:06 +0200 Guus Snijders via arch-general <arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote:
Op ma 6 jul. 2020 13:15 schreef pete via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org>:
Afternoon all
Having a whole hoard of issues that seem like they MAY be permissions related .
Is there a hard and fast set of permission attributes that can be set as a default for a user at them moment everything in my user is set name users with the bulk of the permissions set -rw-r--r-- or drwxr-xr-x for a directory i know a lot of you use the numeric system i am not sure of it
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Reinstalling probably wouldn't make a difference here, so let's try to focus.
When you say "everything in my user", do you mean your users home directory?
Mortal users usually can't write outside $HOME (with exceptions like /tmp etc), so that shouldn't be a problem.
Can you post the output of: $ id $ ls -l $HOME
(Where "$ " stands for the user prompt, not to be typed in)
mvg, Guus Snijders
Hi Guus right then output of id pete:~ $ id uid=1000(pete) gid=985(users) groups=985(users),3(sys),5(tty),970(boinc),987(uucp),991(lp) pete:~ $ ls -l total 50952 -rw-r--r-- 1 pete users 21189 Feb 23 11:59 6njr-2cal.cal -rw------- 1 pete users 27324 Nov 2 2019 about-the-club.html drwxr-xr-x 3 pete users 22 Oct 21 2019 Aeonflux Pal Eu drwxr-xr-x 4 pete users 44 May 5 11:15 Arduino -rw-r--r-- 1 pete users 1295 Nov 10 2019 bakmeny.html -rw-r--r-- 1 pete users 11816716 Jun 11 13:45 Billie Eilish - everything i wanted-EgBJmlPo8Xw.f137.mp4.part drwxr-xr-x 3 pete users 19 Sep 23 2019 build drwxr-xr-x 3 pete users 88 Oct 4 2019 Coil64-1.0.5-linux-portable -rw------- 1 pete users 3483 Jun 5 16:16 DEADJOE drwxr-xr-x 2 pete users 4096 Jun 20 09:04 desk2 drwx------ 2 pete users 301 Jun 14 19:28 Desktop drwxrwxrwx 39 pete users 8192 Jul 6 11:37 Documents drwxr-xr-x 44 pete users 12288 Jul 5 23:59 Downloads -rwxr-xr-x 1 pete users 22 Sep 19 2019 dpmsoff.sh drwxr-xr-x 3 pete users 8192 Nov 4 2019 dudley drwxr-xr-x 7 pete users 122 Dec 2 2019 dVd drwxr-xr-x 2 pete users 6 Oct 13 2019 dvdrip-data drwxr-xr-x 11 pete users 178 Dec 2 2019 entertainment drwxr-xr-x 11 pete users 4096 Jul 5 16:43 G6NJR -rw-r--r-- 1 pete users 13482 Jan 31 21:30 g6njr.cal lrwxrwxrwx 1 pete users 31 Nov 13 2019 gui_rpc_auth.cfg -> /var/lib/boinc/gui_rpc_auth.cfg -rw-r--r-- 1 pete users 82 Feb 7 13:18 halo.xt -rw-r--r-- 1 pete users 856 Nov 2 2019 IMG-20170519-WA0015.jpg drwxr-xr-x 8 pete users 108 Jun 9 2019 Jennifer -rw------- 1 pete users 1854 Oct 17 2019 kinghts.bfproject -rw-r--r-- 1 pete users 1938 Oct 10 2019 kinghts.sublime-workspace -rwxr-xr-x 1 pete users 2674 Jan 10 14:36 latlong.py drwxr-xr-x 12 pete users 4096 Jun 5 09:32 Live_MUF_V73 drwxr-xr-x 2 pete users 106 Dec 16 2019 M6NIW drwxr-xr-x 40 pete users 4096 Nov 3 2019 Mail drwxr-xr-x 2 pete users 12288 May 5 2019 media drwxr-xr-x 7 pete users 288 Jun 18 12:34 Minos2 drwxr-xr-x 7 pete users 260 Sep 24 2018 Minos2-0 drwxr-xr-x 6 pete users 276 May 12 16:31 Minos2-old drwxr-xr-x 9 pete users 4096 Jun 18 13:08 minos-runtime drwxr-xr-x 2 pete users 104 Feb 11 2018 modprobe.d -rw-r--r-- 1 pete users 15264794 Jun 18 12:43 monos.tgz -rw-r--r-- 1 pete users 88993 Sep 25 2019 mozilla.pdf drwxr-xr-x 10 pete users 170 Jun 12 10:45 mshv -rwxr-xr-x 1 pete users 48 Apr 16 15:02 mufon -rwxr-xr-x 1 pete users 48 Apr 16 14:49 mufon~ drwxr-xr-x 5 pete users 86 Dec 6 2019 Music drwxr-xr-x 4 pete users 118 Oct 26 2019 old.wine drwxr-xr-x 2 pete users 54 Dec 15 2018 overlays drwxr-xr-x 8 pete users 20480 Jul 5 16:49 Pictures drwxr-xr-x 2 pete users 119 Jun 5 23:19 preamps drwxr-xr-x 17 pete users 292 Sep 15 2019 prev.fldigi drwxr-xr-x 9 pete users 110 Oct 6 2019 qsstv drwxr-xr-x 5 pete users 318 Jun 18 13:04 runtime drwxr-xr-x 4 pete users 4096 Jun 13 21:40 S10 -rw-r--r-- 1 pete users 0 May 10 14:16 sp-auth.tgz drwxr-xr-x 26 pete users 4096 May 11 09:05 storage drwxr-xr-x 3 pete users 19 May 10 11:50 susdotkde4 drwxr-xr-x 6 pete users 271 Nov 25 2019 Templarsuk drwxr-xr-x 2 pete users 25 Sep 14 2019 Templates -rw-r--r-- 1 pete users 127 Dec 13 2019 templ-lnk.txt~ drwxr-xr-x 2 pete users 4096 Jul 8 12:22 textfls -rw-r--r-- 1 pete users 24650184 Mar 7 15:35 TimeShift-20200307T153342.m2t -rw-r--r-- 1 pete users 82873 Apr 28 12:56 u -rw-r--r-- 1 pete users 355 Nov 4 2019 ukacrtesluts.txt~ drwxr-xr-x 5 pete users 43 Oct 24 2019 VirtualBox VMs -rw-r--r-- 1 pete users 4681 Oct 6 2019 waterfall-20191006143101.jpg drwxr-xr-x 5 pete users 56 Dec 6 2019 WebstormProjects drwxr-xr-x 10 pete users 262 Sep 15 2019 Winlog32 drwxr-xr-x 20 pete users 4096 May 10 16:37 xawtv4 drwxr-xr-x 21 pete users 4096 May 10 16:32 xawtv4.git hope that helps ... Pete
On lunes, 6 de julio de 2020 13:15:00 (CEST) pete via arch-general wrote:
I get problems such as system settings do not stick libreofice complains about backup files some things work some play up or fail completely Kaffeine for one just bombs out i believe this is a permissions thing but cant find any usefull info as to exactly what should be what if you follow .
Do you have a separate partition for /home. It may be that your home partition got mounted as read-only for some reason. Can you create a new file in $HOME? Try, for example, to do $ touch $HOME/test
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Guus Snijders
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