Ownership problem

[Thomas Webb]

Hi. I can't change my /home directory's ownership to the user. It is set to root only, and when ever I try, it says " Operation Not Permitted". I need som ehelp with this. I can't login as the user because it can't make the log file in the /home directory.

[brittocan]

Hi Thomas Webb,

Are u Logged with root privilage ....If u still getting an error check the attributes of the files(lsattr)
Regds,
Britto

[smolloy]

Try,

su -
<root's password>
chown -R username /home/username
exit

where "username" is the name of the user you want to change.

I'm actually quite surprised that the user's home directory is owned by root and not the user. Are you sure this is right??

[Thomas Webb]

yes I am logged in as root, That is the part I don't get. when I type chown thomas:thomas /home/thomas it says "chown: changing ownership of `/home/thomas': Operation not permitted" . I tried typing lsattr in the home directory folder and it said "lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on ./thomas". This problem is very odd. and also passwd is having conflists with pam-apps, siudregister, and debconf (<0.5 . I even tried using sudo but it didn't work either. also when I was installing debian, when it asks for the user name and pw, everytime i would put all of it in, it would says something in the console, and then go back to the beginning and ask for the full name of user, account name, and password.

[smolloy]

Have you put /home on a different drive/partition to the rest of the filesystem?? It could be issues with the way that it is mounted, but if not then I think I'm stumped.

Sorry

[Thomas Webb]

Well i formatted and re-installed, but now I don't have sound