permissions issue

[Scott]

I'm having system wide issues with permissions. This a new install of Jaunty kde3. All of my personal folders are set as root root, they should be username username, also the three graphic programs I opened give permissions failed messages. It appears this maybe a bug, is there a fix?
Thanks

[doctordruidphd]

Re: permissions issue

This may or may not be a bug, but the way to fix it is:

sudo chown -R yourusername:yourusername /home/yourhomedirectory/*

Where "yourusername" and "yourhomedirectory" are usually the same.

One way this happens is if you use sudo instead of kdesudo to open a gui program; doing so can mess up permissions in your home directory, especially if you use dolphin or some othe file manager this way.

[Scott]

Re: permissions issue

Thanks Doctor: It appears I got it fixed. I changed the permissions for/home/scott from root root to scott scott. Graphic apps appear to be work as they should, folders are accessible.
Thanks for the quick reply.