Elastic permissions? [solved]

[MrMorden]

Being the n00b that I was when I first installed Mandrake 10.1 (at least a bigger n00b than I am now), I didn't allocate any space for a /home partition. So, no big deal, thought I, I'd just set up a directory under /usr/ called /res/ and give myself ownership of it. So I made a directory /usr/res/ and gave the user ownership of it, using an instance of konqueror with supervisor permissions. (ie, kdesu konqueror) However, every so often, Linux decides to return the ownership of /usr/res/ to root! Is there a permanent way to give the user ownership of /usr/res/, am I doing something I shouldn't be doing (and hence Mandrake is trying to prevent me from doing it), or is there another explanation of what's going on?

 

I'm using Mandrake 10.1 official.

 

Thank you,

-MrMorden

[aioshin]

try mcc - security - permission - add a rule - browse for that directory - set the permission and users

[MrMorden]

try mcc - security - permission - add a rule - browse for that directory - set the permission and users

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I think I've found the culprit, but I can't seem to do anything about it.

 

When I start an instance of mcc --root, and go to secuirity - permissions, it says that /usr/* is owned by root (user and group), and it won't let me modify that entry. Any suggestions?

 

-MrMorden

[MrMorden]

Fixed it, thanks aioshin.

 

-MrMorden

[aioshin]

glad u fixed it :)

Edited April 29, 2005 by aioshin