[arch-general] Permissions Problem possibly

[pete]

On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 17:23:06 +0200
Guus Snijders via arch-general <arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:

> Op ma 6 jul. 2020 13:15 schreef pete via arch-general <
> arch-general at 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

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