Comment 4 for bug 3671

Thanks a lot, I'll have a go. I've rather relegated Linux at the moment
because although I love it basically, I'm having so steep a learning
mountain to climb that I just don't have time. But, I'm determined to get
there. Thanks again for the help. Derek

-----Original Message-----
From: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] On Behalf Of
Janeene Webb
Sent: 16 May 2006 08:36
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 3671] Re: Correct password fails to access Gnome from
log-insplash screen

This sounds like an issue I've had with KDE in the past.

What caused the issue then was running the KDE control centre using sudo
on the command line (if I remember correctly). The ownership for the
~/.ICEauthority (and some .DCOP files) were changed from my user to be
owned by root.

The next login then failed, as my user did not have permission to write
to the root-owned files in the user's home directory.

If you can log in without using Gnome/KDE (e.g. ICE Window manager or simply
the command line), in a terminal type
  ls -lad ~/*

This will show the ownership of all files/directories in your home
directory (without recursing through the directories themselves) - make
sure that files like ~/.ICEauthority are owned by yourself.

If they are not, you will need to change the ownership back to yourself to
regain permission to write to them, and hence the ability to log into
Gnome/KDE. This will need to be done by root, since by not owning them you
are not permitted to alter their ownership:
   sudo chown <your_username> file1 file2 ....

If any directories have been altered, add the -R option to recurse through:
   sudo chown -R <your_username> file1 file2 dir1 ....

or if everything inside your home should be owned by you (I'm not sure
whether any config files or mail files for other programs would expect to be
owned by some system user....can anyone confirm this is ok?)
   sudo chown -R <your_username> /home/<your_username>

The last sets *everything* inside your home directory to be owned by
yourself, which I would expect to be ok.

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Correct password fails to access Gnome from log-in splash screen
https://launchpad.net/bugs/3671

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