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permissions probs... pls help

10 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/permissions-probs-pls-help.28572/

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legolas Original post #1
May 19, 2006 at 11:16 PM
hi,

i dont know what i did... but now its like this and i am not able to change the permissions or delete it.. how do i do it... pls help...

Code: 
drwxr-xr-x  2 nfsnobody nfsnobody    1024 May 19 18:59 a
drwxr-xr-x  2 nfsnobody nfsnobody    1024 May 19 18:59 Alaipayuthey
drwxr-xr-x  2 nfsnobody nfsnobody    1024 May 19 18:59 7G Rainbow Colony
drwxr-xr-x  2 nfsnobody nfsnobody    1024 May 19 18:58 manmadhan

/legolas
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rohandhruva #2
May 20, 2006 at 1:07 AM
Login as root and do

Code: 
cd /whatever/dir
chown USERNAME:USERNAME *
where USERNAME is your normal username ..

Should work. Strange why this problem occured :S
vignesh
vignesh #3
May 20, 2006 at 1:58 PM
I think you should do that as root... Since you can`t login as nfsnobody... Use the root account and as he said change the USERNAME to your name not root...
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rohandhruva #4
May 20, 2006 at 3:40 PM
vignesh said:
I think you should do that as root... Since you can`t login as nfsnobody... Use the root account and as he said change the USERNAME to your name not root...
Click to expand...

Hmm.. wasnt that exactly what I said ? :)

rohandhruva said:
Login as root and do
Click to expand...
...
vignesh
vignesh #5
May 21, 2006 at 9:27 AM
Fine... I didn`t read your post I just posted my reply...
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legolas #6
May 21, 2006 at 11:12 PM
nope!!! it dint work out! :(

/legolas
vignesh
vignesh #7
May 22, 2006 at 3:50 PM
Do you get any error Pls post it here Also post the command you entered...
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mehulved #8
May 22, 2006 at 7:21 PM
See if this can throw some light *www.redhat.com/archives/taroon-list/2004-May/msg00353.html
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legolas #9
May 23, 2006 at 8:41 PM
it says.... nothing can be done except for recompiling the KERNEL :-o for such a small thing??? :-o

/legolas
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mehulved #10
May 23, 2006 at 9:52 PM
recompiling the kernel isn't such a big thing and in fact it is really good. You can have a look at gentoo docs on how to compile a kernel. Gives you a good idea. I once saw slackware kernel and realised how bloated these kernels are. Dunno about RH ones. But, it will be good to have your own kernel. I am sure you will find good tuts on that on the net.