yc2
June 14th, 2010, 03:02 PM
I was just trying to add new ssh users for tonights session and really messed up badly.
I first installed package ibsh (iron-bars shell). I do not think this is the problem. I didn't know how to use it so I just went to a new user account and added ibsh at the end of his .profile. (I wrote
sudo gedit /home/username/.profile
which I suspect is the problem, I should have written
gksu gedit /home/username/.profile
??)
Well graphical logging became impossible in my own account until I did the following in my own account:
chmod 777 .profile
chmod 777 .ICEauthority
But desktop is still empty. I have restarted the system.
I can not use Firefox (it works without output for 10 sec and then dies)
Chromium says something like "Problems due to not being able to update profile" but works
(I cannot see any files on desktop. (But if i do places > desktop I can see them.)
All the mentioned files had -------- for permissions so I did
chmod 777 ~/Desktop/*
Please tell me how to get my system back to normal.
I think I got botched up permissions.
Some people expect to log on tonight and if someone can help me solve this, I would be really happy.
Thanks a lot.
EDIT: If I create new user accounts, I get several error messages in these accounts.
I first installed package ibsh (iron-bars shell). I do not think this is the problem. I didn't know how to use it so I just went to a new user account and added ibsh at the end of his .profile. (I wrote
sudo gedit /home/username/.profile
which I suspect is the problem, I should have written
gksu gedit /home/username/.profile
??)
Well graphical logging became impossible in my own account until I did the following in my own account:
chmod 777 .profile
chmod 777 .ICEauthority
But desktop is still empty. I have restarted the system.
I can not use Firefox (it works without output for 10 sec and then dies)
Chromium says something like "Problems due to not being able to update profile" but works
(I cannot see any files on desktop. (But if i do places > desktop I can see them.)
All the mentioned files had -------- for permissions so I did
chmod 777 ~/Desktop/*
Please tell me how to get my system back to normal.
I think I got botched up permissions.
Some people expect to log on tonight and if someone can help me solve this, I would be really happy.
Thanks a lot.
EDIT: If I create new user accounts, I get several error messages in these accounts.