Problem accessing files: Permission denied [SOLVED]

Dralnu · Veteran Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 1919

This is an odd problem. I have had to do a reinstall, and after moving many files over from my old install the the new one, I have lost access to them.

I have run chown -R user:user /home/user, and STILL have problems with this.

Any ideas on what could be the problem? Looking at the permissions as root (ls -al), they all read user:user.
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Jaglover · Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 11:04 pm Post subject:

Since you were messing around with /home ... did you lose the executable bit on directories by any chance?

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 11:14 pm Post subject:

Dralnu,

What are the permissions on /home/user_name ?
The files belong to a userID not a username. If your user has changed userID strange things happen
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Dralnu · Veteran Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 1919

I had recreated the old directories, and they were what was causing me problems.

I recreated everything, and copied it all over and it worked fine.
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