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Re: All settings are lost at logout

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On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 11:53:35AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Call up a terminal, and type:
> 
> cd
> sudo chown -R yourusername:yourusername *

This will miss the dot files, and the home directory itself.

sudo chown -R "$LOGNAME:$LOGNAME" .

And of course, you are doing this interactively, NOT in a script, which
means you should notice if the cd fails.  If the cd fails, DO NOT run
the chown command.

It would also be a good idea to *check* the ownerships of everything
before doing the chown, just to make sure you're solving the correct
problem.

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All settings are lost at logout 70147persson@telia.com - 2016-11-20 15:50 +0100
  Re: All settings are lost at logout Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2016-11-21 16:00 +0100
    Re: All settings are lost at logout Kaj <70147persson@telia.com> - 2016-11-21 17:00 +0100
      Re: All settings are lost at logout Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2016-11-21 17:20 +0100
        Re: All settings are lost at logout Kaj <70147persson@telia.com> - 2016-11-22 00:40 +0100
          Re: All settings are lost at logout Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-11-22 00:50 +0100
            Re: All settings are lost at logout Kaj <70147persson@telia.com> - 2016-11-22 11:10 +0100
  Re: All settings are lost at logout Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-11-21 18:00 +0100
    Re: All settings are lost at logout Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-11-21 18:30 +0100
      Re: All settings are lost at logout David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-11-21 18:40 +0100
        Re: All settings are lost at logout Kaj <70147persson@telia.com> - 2016-11-22 14:00 +0100
  Re: All settings are lost at logout Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-11-21 18:00 +0100
    Re: All settings are lost at logout Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-21 18:20 +0100

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