Changed access permissions of HOME folder in ubuntu.how to bring it back to the default permission

Question

Hello, I changed the folder permission of my Home directory by mistake and it is throwing up the following message while system start up.

User's $HOME/.dmrc is being ignored. THis prevents the default sesssion and language fron 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.

The changes I did were,

sudo chown 777 weblab And also changed the permissions by right clicking the home folder,weblab, and changing the permissions for ser,group and others to read and write.

Can some one help me in resolving this? Due to this I'm not able to access by phpmyadmin folder. It says Wrong permissions on configuration file, should not be world writable!

SOLUTION

I rectified my problem which was actually a simple thing. But I had tried the round about way earlier. I just right clicked my home folder, selected the Properties tab, Permissions, ans changed the group and others as "Read Only". Now the problem is solved.. Silly of me not to try this earlier..

Answer 1

The home folder can normally be solved by running:

chmod 700 ~/
chmod 644 ~/.dmrc

from any terminal. The PHPMyAdmin thing is a little harder to solve, since I forget where ubuntu stores the stupid thing(And I don't think it's in the normal www folder).

If you know where it is you can solve that error by running:

chmod -R o-w /path/to/phpMyAdmin

And I should add that this doesn't belong on stack overflow, but probably one of the sister sites, probably server-fault given the linux/web server nature of your second question, but your main question probably belongs more strongly on super-user.

Answer 2

I rectified my problem which was actually a simple thing. But I had tried the round about way earlier. I just right clicked my home folder, selected the Properties tab, Permissions, ans changed the group and others as "Read Only". Now the problem is solved.. Silly of me not to try this earlier..