[CoLoCo] permission question

[Jim Hutchinson]

They say a little knowledge is dangerous. I think I'm finding out how true
that is. I was logged in as one kid trying to open a file in the others home
directory. It wasn't working and in my experience you can usually open files
in others /home. That seems to be the default in ubuntu. However, for
whatever reason it wasn't working so I tried to "fix" it by chmod-ing to 655
(I thought this was the default perms for /home) but it didn't help so I
bumped it up to 777. It still didn't work and I don't know why.

However, the permission changes f-ed up the users account as now it won't
log in. I get this error...

"User's $HOME/.dmrc file is being ignored. This prevents the default session
and language from being saved. File should be owned by user and have 644
permissions. User's $HOME directory must be owned by user and not writable
by other users."

I tried doing

sudo chmod -R 644 /home/user

but that didn't help and when you do an ls -l it gives -????????? ? ? ? ?
for the perms and owner info. Changing to 655 gives

-rw-r-xr-x 1 777 leina size date file.name

Can anyone offer a solution to this? I've noticed in hardy any changes to
perms with 644 screws it up.

Thanks.
-jim

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