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Re: All settings are lost at logout

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Den 2016-11-21 18:36, skrev David Wright:
> On Mon 21 Nov 2016 at 12:23:49 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Monday 21 November 2016 11:58:39 Greg Wooledge wrote:
>>
>>> 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" .
>>>
>> True, my bad.  OTOH, if he has somehow lost ownership of /home/him, he
>> has a much larger problem, and he will need to become root and cd
>> to /home, then use your command line verbatum, but I would first
>>
>> echo $LOGNAME
>>
>> To find out who the system really things he is.
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Yep, he has much bigger problems in that event.
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> In my case thats around 35 Gb of stuff to sift thru as my email corpus
>> goes back to around 2002 in some maildirs. Since I should absolutely own
>> everything in my ~/usr directory, its just easier to let the system do
>> it since it can't hurt anything.  I don't know of, or am not familiar
>> with, any tool in our bag of tricks that could easily find the missed
>> ownership(s).
>
> Well, you could start from
>
> # find / -mount -not -group 0 -exec ls -ld {} \; -o -not -user 0 -exec ls -ld {} \;
>
> which is for listing all non-root.root files on a root filesystem.
> Substitute an appropriate pathname for / and user number for 0.
>
>> Obviously the thought of doing that at the filesystems root = / would
>> inflict damages similar to an rm -Rf. Common sense will be needed.
>
> Cheers,
> David.
>
>


Hi Gene, Greg, David and Brian,

Thank you for answer and suggestions. They are all founded in a 
suspicion that I have lost the ownership of, or at least the access to 
my files, especially the config files in my home directory. I had really 
no feeling that this is the case, as, despite the bad behaviour I 
described initially, the environment is working, and I can use the 
programs I have installed. Also the printer is working.

But I made a test via this command sequence:

sudo find /home/<myUserId> -regex ".*/\.?*.*" -ls | awk '$5$6 !~ 
/<myUserId>/'

which filtered out all those files where my user id neither own a file 
or directory nor my group has access. The total number of files and 
directories (the part before the pipe bar) is 281502 and to 26 of them I 
or my group have no admittance. They have the root as owner and group. 
None of these 26 is a configuration file. Most of the files owned by 
root but with access from my group are those on a few vfat (fat32) 
partitions, which I have to make it possible to reach the data also from 
MS Windows. Even if this is very rare nowadays, I want to keep the 
possibility.

Because of this investigation I do not think that the reason to my issue 
is bad access to configuration files. Hope someone has more ideas.

By the way 1, echo $LOGNAME printed my login id.
By the way 2, regarding Brian's comment: I gave no root password at the 
install, so I cannot login as (or su to) root, and neither I want that.

Best regards
Kaj

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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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