Re: Program runs for "root", not for regular user

spike1_at_freenet.co.uk
Date: 06/15/04 

Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 21:19:19 +0100

Robert Oschler <no_replies@fake_email_address.invalid> did eloquently scribble:
> Spike,
>
> I'm a bit baffled at the moment. You're right, the /home/me-the-user
> directory was indeed set to be owned by "users", although not "me-the-user".

Then change /home/me-the-user so that it IS owned (and all its contents are
owned) by me-the-user.

therein lies all your problems.
chown -R me-the-user /home/me-the-user

> However, setting the permissions to "a+w" did solve the problem (yes I am
> aware that this opens up my home directory to other users).

And set /home/me-the-user back to read/write/execute only by the user
himself.

chmod -R 700 /home/me-the-user

> /home is indeed set to ownership by root with permissions of drwxr-xr-x
>
> komodo, the binary, has permissions: -rwxrwxr-x with root as the owner, and
> is located in /usr/local/Komodo-2.5 which has permissions drwxr-xr-x with
> root as the owner.
>
> However, without the permissions set to "full write" in /home/me-the-user, I
> get a permissions error when komodo tries to write the lock file.

That's because you didn't own your own home directory, which is incredibly
broken and should be fixed.

(You need to be root to chown) 

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