[gun@LinuxBox home]$ ls -ld drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 May 12 08:55 .

As you can see with the home directory,

The owner of the directory has read/write/execute access. The group of the directory has read/execute access (No write access). Everyone else has read/execute access (No write access).

Incidentally, root has full control of adelle, and if adelle is a user, tough, adelle ony is seen as Joe Public and has read execute access.

For security reasons, I would leave it as is (and login as root to create subdirectories - this sort of thing should be automated when a new user is created - each user should have their own directory to do whatever and that should pertain to that user) but if you feel another way inclined want to have full control as a user, then

chown gun home chgrp gun home

Or else if you want want everyone to have rw access the

chmod 777 home

I hope this helps.

-----Original Message----- From: Gun Caundle [mailto:gun@paradise.net.nz] Sent: Wednesday, 12 May 2004 09:36 To: wlug@list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: [wlug] creating directories

I am trying to create a directory in my 'home' directory with my user login. However I can only create a directory as a root user and thus can't use it with my user login. I can use the 'gun' directory in 'home' with my user login. Any help would be appreciated.

[gun@LinuxBox home]$ mkdir adelle mkdir: cannot create directory `adelle': Permission denied [gun@LinuxBox home]$ su Password: [root@LinuxBox home]# mkdir adelle [root@LinuxBox home]# exit exit [gun@LinuxBox home]$ ls -ld drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 May 12 08:55 . [gun@LinuxBox home]$ cd gun [gun@LinuxBox gun]$ ls -ld drwx------ 25 gun gun 4096 May 12 08:54 . [gun@LinuxBox gun]$ cd .. [gun@LinuxBox home]$ ls -ld adelle drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 12 08:55 adelle [gun@LinuxBox home]$

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