Strange message at logon

[Marco]

When i logon to my Ubuntu 5.10 machine i'm getting, after typing my
username and password and hitting enter, a message saying that a file,
$Home/.drmc has the wrong rights and therefore my language cannot be
saved. It also says that i should change the rights to 644 and be the
owner of that file. After clicking <ok> i can log in.
I'm having no trouble with language at all and i changed the rights of
the file /home/username/.drmc (hidden file) and i was already the owner.
But after logging out and back in and even after rebooting the message
is still there. Everything works fine so it's not a big problem but i
just wonder how to get rid of this message.
Has anyone got a clue? Thanks in advance.

[Michael B. Trausch]

Marco wrote in <446d1832$0$31649$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> on Thu, May 18
2006 20:58:

>
> When i logon to my Ubuntu 5.10 machine i'm getting, after typing my
> username and password and hitting enter, a message saying that a file,
> $Home/.drmc has the wrong rights and therefore my language cannot be
> saved. It also says that i should change the rights to 644 and be the
> owner of that file. After clicking <ok> i can log in.
> I'm having no trouble with language at all and i changed the rights of
> the file /home/username/.drmc (hidden file) and i was already the owner.
> But after logging out and back in and even after rebooting the message
> is still there. Everything works fine so it's not a big problem but i
> just wonder how to get rid of this message.
> Has anyone got a clue? Thanks in advance.
>

0644 is the permissions for making the file read-write to you, and read-only
to everybody else. Try opening a terminal and in it:

$ chmod 0644 ~/.dmrc

And that should get rid of your error message.

- Mike

[Marco]

Michael B. Trausch schreef:

> Marco wrote in <446d1832$0$31649$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> on Thu, May 18
> 2006 20:58:
>

>>When i logon to my Ubuntu 5.10 machine i'm getting, after typing my
>>username and password and hitting enter, a message saying that a file,
>>$Home/.drmc has the wrong rights and therefore my language cannot be
>>saved. It also says that i should change the rights to 644 and be the
>>owner of that file. After clicking <ok> i can log in.
>>I'm having no trouble with language at all and i changed the rights of
>>the file /home/username/.drmc (hidden file) and i was already the owner.
>>But after logging out and back in and even after rebooting the message
>>is still there. Everything works fine so it's not a big problem but i
>>just wonder how to get rid of this message.
>>Has anyone got a clue? Thanks in advance.
>>

>
>
> 0644 is the permissions for making the file read-write to you, and read-only
> to everybody else. Try opening a terminal and in it:
>
> $ chmod 0644 ~/.dmrc
>
> And that should get rid of your error message.
>
> - Mike

Thanks for your reaction.
I followed your tip but unfortunally the message still comes up.
Very strange.

Marco

[Marco]

Marco schreef:

> Michael B. Trausch schreef:
>

>> Marco wrote in <446d1832$0$31649$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> on Thu, May 18
>> 2006 20:58:
>>

>>> When i logon to my Ubuntu 5.10 machine i'm getting, after typing my
>>> username and password and hitting enter, a message saying that a file,
>>> $Home/.drmc has the wrong rights and therefore my language cannot be
>>> saved. It also says that i should change the rights to 644 and be the
>>> owner of that file. After clicking <ok> i can log in.
>>> I'm having no trouble with language at all and i changed the rights of
>>> the file /home/username/.drmc (hidden file) and i was already the owner.
>>> But after logging out and back in and even after rebooting the message
>>> is still there. Everything works fine so it's not a big problem but i
>>> just wonder how to get rid of this message.
>>> Has anyone got a clue? Thanks in advance.
>>>

>>
>>
>> 0644 is the permissions for making the file read-write to you, and
>> read-only
>> to everybody else. Try opening a terminal and in it:
>>
>> $ chmod 0644 ~/.dmrc
>>
>> And that should get rid of your error message.
>>
>> - Mike

>
>
> Thanks for your reaction.
> I followed your tip but unfortunally the message still comes up.
> Very strange.
>
> Marco

I found the solution to this "problem".
The permissions on the /home/username folder were set to 775.
I changed them back to 700 and at logon the message was gone.

Marco

[Michael B. Trausch]

Marco wrote in <446d648d$0$31642$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> on Fri, May 19
2006 02:24:

>
> I found the solution to this "problem".
> The permissions on the /home/username folder were set to 775.
> I changed them back to 700 and at logon the message was gone.
>
> Marco
>

I was just going to reply back to mention something like this. I decided
that since I was curious, I would check how it was set up on my system, and
I found that the permissions on that file itself are quite restrictive, as
well as my home directory having sort of loose, but okay permissions:

fd0man@fd0man-laptop:~$ ls -la | grep '\.$'
drwxr-xr-x 78 fd0man fd0man 4096 2006-05-19 13:50 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2006-05-16 21:36 ..
fd0man@fd0man-laptop:~$ ls -la | grep .dmrc
-rw------- 1 fd0man fd0man 22 2006-05-11 14:45 .dmrc
fd0man@fd0man-laptop:~$

As you can see the permissions on my $HOME directory are 0755, and the
permissions on the .dmrc file is 0600 -- And I don't see any error or
anything WRT that file.

- Mike