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All of a sudden my home dir turned to be owned by user '1016':



drwxr-xr-x 96  1016  1016 20480 Apr  2  2010 albert
drwxr-xr-x 32 guest guest 4096 Mar 16 13:46 guest


I don't understand how that changed. I just noticed because I couldn't write files or anything on my home directory during my open session. I rebooted and complained of 'cannot creat file .ICEauthority'.



What could have caused this weird change in ownership to owner 1016? A virus perhaps?



I logged in as guest and did a ssh albert@localhost to then do a: sudo chown -R albert:albert /home/albert/. Is that going to be enough?


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Thanks @IlluminAce for the answer:




This seems to be a common complaint; if the veetle installation script
is run as root, then ownership of your home directory is changed as
you describe. Apparently, Veetle should only be installed as your
user, not root.



[#32178] Tuesday, February 28, 2023, 1 Year  [reply] [flag answer]
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