permissions probs... pls help

[legolas]

hi,

i dont know what i did... but now its like this and i am not able to change the permissions or delete it.. how do i do it... pls help...


drwxr-xr-x 2 nfsnobody nfsnobody 1024 May 19 18:59 a
drwxr-xr-x 2 nfsnobody nfsnobody 1024 May 19 18:59 Alaipayuthey
drwxr-xr-x 2 nfsnobody nfsnobody 1024 May 19 18:59 7G Rainbow Colony
drwxr-xr-x 2 nfsnobody nfsnobody 1024 May 19 18:58 manmadhan



/legolas

[rohandhruva]

Login as root and do


cd /whatever/dir
chown USERNAME:USERNAME *

where USERNAME is your normal username ..

Should work. Strange why this problem occured :S

[vignesh]

I think you should do that as root... Since you can`t login as nfsnobody... Use the root account and as he said change the USERNAME to your name not root...

[rohandhruva]

I think you should do that as root... Since you can`t login as nfsnobody... Use the root account and as he said change the USERNAME to your name not root...

Hmm.. wasnt that exactly what I said ? :)


Login as root and do

...

[vignesh]

Fine... I didn`t read your post I just posted my reply...

[legolas]

nope!!! it dint work out! :(

/legolas

[vignesh]

Do you get any error Pls post it here Also post the command you entered...

[mehulved]

See if this can throw some light http://www.redhat.com/archives/taroon-list/2004-May/msg00353.html

[legolas]

it says.... nothing can be done except for recompiling the KERNEL :-o for such a small thing??? :-o

/legolas

[mehulved]

recompiling the kernel isn't such a big thing and in fact it is really good. You can have a look at gentoo docs on how to compile a kernel. Gives you a good idea. I once saw slackware kernel and realised how bloated these kernels are. Dunno about RH ones. But, it will be good to have your own kernel. I am sure you will find good tuts on that on the net.