Strange wine behavior, home directory permission change!!

hi all, archers.
i'm an arch user since early 2007 and this is my first post. Since now i've always found every information needed and enjoyed this great distribution.
btw, now i have a strange behavior with last version of wine in extra repository (0.9.61).
situation:
clean wine install, w/o .wine prefix from previous version creation (i always redo prefix creation every new version).
the fact:
after wineprefixcreate, as usual, i execute winecfg for the last personalization and sound interface selection.
fortunately and surprisingly, i notice that my home directory AND my desktop directory have completely screwed up permission. they was set to 777!!! aargh!
my home desktop is not so critical mission but i think this is not good!!!
after some test, i can say, in this my strange personal experience, that it's winecfg fault. wineprefixcreate don't change any permission. this happen only after the first winecfg execution AND only the first time. following execution of winecfg does not trigger the fault.
googled anywhere but it seems that i'm the only one in the world with this wine strange behavior. Is it true? any else?
a little report of my config:
(multi device are all raid5)
/dev/sda2 ext2 /boot
/dev/md0 ext3 /
/dev/md1 ext3 /home
... other devices in irrelevant mount point.
not so strange rc.conf
untouched /etc/skel
not so strange gnome DE on top of GDM
not so strange any else
thanks in advance and good arching

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D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compilation CFLAGS: -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wall -W -Wextra -Wno-long-long -Wno-overlength-strings -Wunsafe-loop-optimizations -Wundef -Wformat=2 -Wlogical-op -Wsign-compare -Wformat-security -Wmissing-include-dirs -Wformat-nonliteral -Wpointer-arith -Winit-self -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wfloat-equal -Wmissing-prototypes -Wredundant-decls -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-noreturn -Wshadow -Wendif-labels -Wcast-align -Wstrict-aliasing -Wwrite-strings -Wno-unused-parameter -ffast-math -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fno-common -fdiagnostics-show-option
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running on host: Linux x86_64 3.7.10-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Feb 28 09:50:17 CET 2013
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Found 2 CPUs.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Page size is 4096 bytes
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Compiled with Valgrind support: no
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in valgrind mode: no
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Running in VM: no
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: Optimized build: yes
D: [pulseaudio] main.c: FASTPATH defined, only fast path asserts disabled.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Machine ID is 6aee4708a200492ea6f54ed069a7da94.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Session ID is 1.
I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Using runtime directory /run/user/1000/pulse.
E: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: Home directory not accessible: Permission denied

It seems to be fine in windows, I have logged a bug for Linux.
Thanks
Sue

I have to give password to file changes in my home directory

From yesterday, when I try to change files in my home directory, a dialog box pops up to ask the password.
That happens even after make the file permission to 644. I tried to change the whole /Users/myplace permisson, but it doesn't work.
The owner of the file is set as myself, but there might be something broken with this.
This actually made everything not working, dropbox takes for ever to delete a file, evernote can't even start and on and on.
I just happen to add New Person with the same user name that I use now in Sharing, but I'm not sure this is the cause of the problem.
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Yeah for the System Folders "Movies", "Music", "Pictures", "Library", "Public" and "Desktop" there is an ACL, so you can't rename or delte them.
It's just for your safety because these folders are used by the system and should be not renamed or removed!
Additionally you made something wrong by chmodding your home folder to 644 - or as it showing here to 730!?!
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Barney-15E wrote:
You should have experienced that same effect when you managed to change you login name. How did you change your login name?
I imagine that has something to do with why everything 'disappeared' when you changed the directory name.
It's actually pretty simple to change the login name, and it doesn't affect files at all.
All I did was change the field labeled "user name".
Niel wrote:
Move all of your files to the other home folder in the Users folder and then change the name.
(38519)
I'll try that, thanks.

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Hello, everyone.
I was given a pre-owned MacBook Pro that's running OS 10.6.8. How can I change the name on the Home directory folder? I was able to change the Administrator Account settings, but the Home directory still shows the previous owner's name. It bothers me a bit, though, to see the previous owner's name still come up on the Home folder.
I came across the instruction listed below, but I can't get past step 4. It instructs me "rename it just like I would rename any folder." I can't seem to rename it, though. The cursor doesn't come up when I click on the folder name.
For Mac OS X v10.5 or later
Enable the root user.
Log in as root.
Navigate to the /Users folder.
Select the Home folder with the short name you want to change, and rename it just like you would rename any folder. Keep in mind that the shortname must be all lowercase, with no spaces, and only contain letters.
Use the Users & Groups pane (Accounts pane in Mac OS X v10.6.8 or earlier) in System Preferences to create a new user with the Account name or Short Name that you used in the previous step.
Click OK when "A folder in the Users folder already has the name 'account name'. Would you like to use that folder as the Home folder for this user account?" appears. Note: This will correct the ownership of all files in the Home folder, and avoid permissions issues with the contents.
Choose Log Out from the Apple menu.
Log in as the newly created user. You should be able to access all of your original files (on the desktop, in Documents, and in the other folders of this Home).
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Disable the root user.
Any help would be much appreciated.

Hi everyone,
I followed this https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3872
and got to the stage of having renamed my Home folder with the new name but the Home folder is STILL designated to the old name?
When I try and create a new user with the new name, I don't get asked if I'd like to use the existing name as Home folder, I get told I can't use the newname because it exists already - thats the end of it - no further options.
So to clarify - I now have oldname folder STILL assigned as Home folder. A newname folder with all my stuff in - apps, desktop, etc etc but this is just another user folder.
Interestingly at login stage, the oldname folder isn't an option. I think I've confused the system somewhere by titling things differently at some stage in an attempt to rename Home folder.
I'm running Mountain Lion (as of yesterday) and because I've kinda lost the use of my User folder as the Home folder, can't get to my Time Machine. I'm in trouble but I'm trying not to panic. Would appreciate any help!
Laurie

Lack Permission to access Network Home Directory

I upgraded OSX 10.4.8 Server to 10.4.9. I also updated the client computers to the same. The server is a Master LDAP directory which houses the users home directories. Since the upgrade when a user tried to login to their home directory they receive a dialog telling them they do not have the permissions to access the directory. They can go to any other machine in the shop and login with no problem. I have found two ways to remedy this. If we shut the affected computer down and pull the plug, when it is restarted they can login. This seems to work 80% of the time. The second remedy has been to remove the apple preferences on the client from "/Library/Preferences", "/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration", and "/Library/ Preferences/DirectoryService". Restart the machine, re-enter all of the required info, and we are off and running again. I have not been able to pin this down to a single file. I had one user that I have hit this problem with that nothing has worked.
Before upgrading the server I backed up 10.4.8 to another internal drive. I have since returned to running off of 10.4.8 but the problem has not gone away. I have checked and double checked permissions on home directories and do not see anything wrong.
Any suggestions?
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Rich
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Changing the schema password is not the same as changing the password for the portal30 user logging on through the browser. If you wanted to change the schema password, then you also need to update the password in the DAD configuration file, which is in $IAS_HOME/Apache/modplsql/cfg/wdbsvr.app. Update the password entry for the corresponding data access descriptor (DAD).
If your intent was to change the password for the lightweight user named portal30, then you'll first need to change back the portal30 schema password - just do it through sqlplus.
The change the password of the lightweight user by logging in as portal30 and then change password from Account Info.

Unable to save permission changes in templates in win 2012

Hi,
PKI set up of (2003 and 2008) based Sub CA and 2003 based AD ( with schema version supporting 2008) is running in the enviornment. Now CA is migrating to 2012 setup. When i try to create template and make permission changes, it says " unable to save
permission changes. Directory object not found". When i duplicate and save the template with name change and wait for 10-15 min and then open that template again and make permission changes, it works.
Just wanted to know if this is because of some feature issue and will it get resolved if AD is upgraded to 2012 schema.
Thanks
Neha Garg

On Fri, 13 Feb 2015 07:07:13 +0000, Neha.ga wrote:
Also, I checked with my AD person. They are also saying that it can be because of current DC architecture and may be a normal thing. Currently they have 2003 AD and they will upgrade schema version for 2012 to see if that makes any change.
As Brian said, this is likely due to replication delays. Updating the
schema version is not likely going to resolve this. If you know how to work
around the issue then I wouldn't worry about it too much. Creating new
certificate templates should not be a frequent task.
Paul Adare - FIM CM MVP
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Hi,
I recently purchased a new iMac and migrated account info from my MacBook Pro. I happened to use random account name during migration without knowing it will not be easy to change the short name (account name?) and home directory name. As a result, I am now having extremely confusing short name and home directory name on my new iMac.
I did online search to find out how to change the two names, but I could only found somethig like "enabiling root user and....." I have no idea what it was talking about and I don't want to take risk altering such advance set up manually.
Please advice how I can change the short name and home directory name safely without much PC knowledge.
Thank you very much in advance.

There are a few ways of doing this. The easiest method is logging into the first account and copying everything to an external drive (or flash drive or whatever), which changes the permissions so that others can see the files.
Then, login with the new account and copy the files over. Once they are copied, the correct permissions will be applied again (so other people on your computer can't access them).
If you can't do this method for one reason or other, you can do some terminal commands to change the ownership of the files. Login to the new account. If it is an admin account, open terminal and type the following command:
sudo chown -R -v yourusername:admin /Users/originalaccountnamehere
That should change the ownership of the files from your old account to the new one. At that point, you can simply drag the files into place.

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