screen resolution not saving

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Tue Apr 22 13:29:37 UTC 2008


On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 08:47:38PM -0400, Mr Chris Aitken wrote:
> Isn't that what I've already done? (see above)
> 
> chris at bpc:~$ ls -ld /home/chris /home/chris/.dmrc
> drwxrwxrwx 39 chris chris 4096 2008-04-21 18:26 /home/chris
> -rw-r--r--  1 chris chris   28 2008-04-01 19:46 /home/chris/.dmrc
> chris at bpc:~$

Your home directory is writeable by all.  That isn't allowed by many
programs (since any user could write anything they want to your home dir
(or even delete files in it).

chmod og-w /home/chris (to remove group and other write permissions).

drwxr-xr-x would be correct.

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