your $HOME/.dmrc file has incorrect permissions problem

[Justin Morgan]

Hi, when i start up Unbuntu at the login after I put in my password it says your $HOME/.dmrc file has incorrect permissions and is being
ignored. ... file sould be " "owned by user and have 644 permissions. ... what is this all about???? Thanks.

[rjwood]

from a terminal

sudo chown (your user name) /.dmrc

then you can change your permissions

[Justin Morgan]

Great thanks! Is there anything I should change it to in particular? Sorry for the elementry questions but i am new to Linux. Thanks.

[Justin Morgan]

When I tried that formula it said "cannot access `/.dmrc': No such file or directory" any Ideas?

[rjwood]

When I tried that formula it said "cannot access `/.dmrc': No such file or directory" any Ideas?

perhaps without the ( / ).

[Justin Morgan]

Im also getting this message :justin@ubuntu:~$ sudo chown justin /.dmrc
chown: cannot access `/.dmrc': No such file or directory
justin@ubuntu:~$ sudo chown justin/.dmrc
chown: too few arguments
Try `chown --help' for more information.

[Justin Morgan]

I tried it without the ( / ), still getting the too few arguments message.

[rjwood]

sudo chmod 644 .dmrc

[rjwood]

Im also getting this message :justin@ubuntu:~$ sudo chown justin /.dmrc
chown: cannot access `/.dmrc': No such file or directory
justin@ubuntu:~$ sudo chown justin/.dmrc
chown: too few arguments
Try `chown --help' for more information.

you need space between justin and .dmrc

[mysurface]

Sometimes its not the .dmrc problem

try to do this if chmod .dmrc doesn't work

sudo chmod 755 /home/{your username}