Re: change permitions in user home

On Monday 11 August 2008 20:50:13 Doug Pollard wrote:
Doug Pollard wrote:
Robert Holtzman wrote:
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Doug Pollard wrote:
Tell me, did it ever occur to you to pick up a book on linux and
read it?
The questions you are asking are *extremely* basic.

Let me tell you two smart folks something I have been struggleing and
reading for a week. I am asking stupid questions because I am stupid.
Come with me to the machine shop and I will show you how stupid you
are!! If you don't want to help me, don't answer my posts .

I don't recall you stating that you attempted to do the research with no
luck. If I missed that, my apologies. If you didn't state it you should
have. Then I wouldn't have anything to complain about.

BTW, I've cut a chip or two myself chambering match rifle barrels.
Anything more than .0001-.0002 runout got driven into the ground. I
amassed quite a little forest of them while learning.

I first of would like to apologize to all. I just plain lost it. Been
struggling with this thing thing august the 4th. My first post was "
Kino problem back then. I am trying to get some video done and could
not capture it and did the job using sudo and was able to capture. I
could not use it in Cinelerra so moved the files into my user home.
That was a bad mistake I guess. I started having problems right away..
Have been getting frantic to do the video as I have a completion date
coming up. It is to be shown in Sept in a yacht club meeting.
I kept this install of Ubuntu on my first disk and installed Ubuntu
on my second hard drive and will be able to work with it there. That
takes the pressure of the straitening out of the permissions problem
which I very much want to do for the learning experience if nothing
else. I had gotten in to big a hurry trying different things and needed
to back off anyway as I was getting to frustrated to get anything done.
Nobody called me stupid by the way, that was my own conclusion.
Sorry ladies.

Doug

William Witt got me straight and everything is working I belieive.
Another problem I had was I could not save anything to my desk top. That
is now working. My reply to, address is still wrong so I am adding to
it by hand each mail to correct it. Istill have the problem with Kino
in that it can't capture raw or dv 1394. Things are looking much
better and my blood pressure is coming back into a normal range. I won't
fool with it any more tonight :-P

Doug

For posterities sake, there were several problems:
1)suspected files owned by root from running kino as root to get around
/dev/raw1394 permissions:
sudo chown -R [username]:[username] /home/[username]
2)some how "all users" had write to his home directory so had errors at login:
chmod o-w /home/[username]
3)Many files did not have owner write permission (including ~/Desktop):
chmod -R u+w ~/*
chmod -R u+w ~/.*

The simple answer to the initial question is how to take away write
permissions from "all users" for a single file:
chmod o-w [filename]

Will


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