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    Permissions denied on depository

    Hey there,

    I am using Xubuntu xfce. I am the only user of the pc and the also the one who setup Xubuntu.
    I am trying to Startup Disk Creator. After installing it without issue, when I try to open it I get the following message:
    An unhandled exception occured:

    [Errno 13] Permission denied: /home/myname/Desktop/

    This kind of error is recurring. As an example I tried to go to the desktop properties to change permissions but this is not allowed neither. I still get the following message:

    Error opening directory '/home/myname/Desktop/.
    Permission denied

    I tried the chown command to change the owner of a file.
    Code:
    sudo chown myname /home/myname/Deskto
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    As I still have no rights on the directory, I tried:
    Code:
    $ chown [-R] myname /home/myname/Desktop
    But I get:
    Code:
    zsh: no matches found: [-R]
    Me being the only user, I don't understand why I can't own my own data. And I don't understand why the chown command doesn't work.So I tried to have a look who is officially the UID and GID of files and directories with

    Code:
    -ls -n
    And I don't see anything wrong here, there is only my name popping up in the results.
    Does anyone have an idea what the access of some specific files/folders are not allowed?

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    Re: Permissions denied on depository

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    Last edited by currentshaft; September 2nd, 2024 at 01:24 AM.

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    Re: Permissions denied on depository

    Hey!

    Thanks for your quick reply. Then I get:

    chown: cannot read directory '/home/amelie-melo/Desktop': Permission denied

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    Re: Permissions denied on depository

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    Last edited by currentshaft; September 2nd, 2024 at 01:26 AM.

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    Re: Permissions denied on depository

    Quote Originally Posted by kaam2811 View Post
    Hey!

    Thanks for your quick reply. Then I get:

    chown: cannot read directory '/home/amelie-melo/Desktop': Permission denied
    Sounds like you used sudo with a GUI, please try this:
    Code:
    find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
    Then show us these:
    Code:
    stat /home/$USER
    ### And
    la -al

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    Re: Permissions denied on depository

    Hi,

    I tried as well with sudo this way:

    $ sudo chown -R amelie-melo /home/amelie-melo/Desktop

    and this way because I was not sure of the synthax:

    sudo $ chown -R amelie-melo /home/amelie-melo/Desktop

    In both way, I got as a result: zsh: command not found: $

    So I tried without $, but then I get nothing in return and I still can't access the directory.

    I tried as well to access the root access by changing the password, but same, nothing happens. So now, I am checking who are the users on this laptop (should be only me) and how to change this

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    Re: Permissions denied on depository

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    Last edited by kaam2811; August 15th, 2024 at 02:23 PM. Reason: remove ID

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    Re: Permissions denied on depository

    When I enter find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
    I get a long list of "operation not permitted"


    When I enter stat /home/$USER

    File: /home/myname
    Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 directory
    Device: 802h/2050d Inode: 23199746 Links: 32
    Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 1000/myname) Gid: ( 1000/myname)
    Access: 2024-08-15 14:58:56.042081511 +0200
    Modify: 2024-08-15 15:01:19.115315384 +0200
    Change: 2024-08-15 15:01:19.115315384 +0200
    Birth: -
    When I enter la -al

    total 2.1G
    drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4.0K Apr 26 2020 ./
    drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4.0K Apr 26 2020 ../
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 26 2020 bin -> usr/bin/
    drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Aug 14 08:54 boot/
    drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Apr 26 2020 cdrom/
    drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 5.0K Aug 15 14:12 dev/
    drwxr-xr-x 144 root root 12K Aug 15 14:19 etc/
    drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Apr 26 2020 home/
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 26 2020 lib -> usr/lib/
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Apr 26 2020 lib32 -> usr/lib32/
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Apr 26 2020 lib64 -> usr/lib64/
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Apr 26 2020 libx32 -> usr/libx32/
    drwx------ 2 root root 16K Apr 26 2020 lost+found/
    drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Apr 28 2020 media/
    drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Apr 23 2020 mnt/
    drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4.0K Dec 1 2022 opt/
    dr-xr-xr-x 328 root root 0 Aug 15 12:23 proc/
    drwx------ 8 root root 4.0K Aug 13 18:05 root/
    drwxr-xr-x 34 root root 1.1K Aug 15 14:55 run/
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Apr 26 2020 sbin -> usr/sbin/
    drwxr-xr-x 27 root root 4.0K Aug 13 17:03 snap/
    drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Apr 23 2020 srv/
    -rw------- 1 root root 2.0G May 6 2023 swapfile
    dr-xr-xr-x 13 root root 0 Aug 15 12:23 sys/
    drwxrwxrwt 19 root root 4.0K Aug 15 14:55 tmp/
    drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4.0K Apr 23 2020 usr/
    drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4.0K Apr 23 2020 var/

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    Re: Permissions denied on depository

    hey there,

    As it seems that root owns everything, all my computer and all my life (me not being dramatic at all :'D), I would like the situation to end

    Is there a way to know when the change was made (for sure, I initially had a normal setup)? It would help me analyse my situation.

    And if I reboot everything, would I lose everything? All data? I mean of course, I can save the data externally that I want and boot afterwards. But that wouldn't be my favourite option, I would prefer to fix the computer and keep as much as it is.

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    Re: Permissions denied on depository

    You don't prefix the command with the dollar sign. That just signifies "ran as user"
    Code:
    sudo chown -R amelie-melo:amelie-melo /home/amelie-melo/Desktop
    Will do it for you

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