Lost write permission to user home directory

[Yalla-One]

Hi,

Sometime in the past couple of days I lost write permission to my own home directory (/Users/yalla) - The attributes for my homedirectory are correct, but there are extended attributes as well, and I believe this is where the problem lies.

For Documents, Downloads etc, I am allowed to create/modify/delete files and directories, but under my pure homedirectory ~yalla I am all of a sudden unable to write, meaning I cannot create for instance a new .bashrc (not that I need to since I already have one), or create new catalogues.

Any idea what has changed?
I have tried both from Terminal and from Finder, and I am not allowed to create new directories under ny homedir.

By going to Finder and going under "Get Info" for my homedir, I have gone to Sharing & Permissions and changed from Read Only to Read & Write which seems to fix it. I have however not been there before and made any changes, and I am therefore worried that by changing this to R&W I am fixing a symptom and not the core problem.


Any insight greatly appreciated!!

Thanks!

 

[BlueRevolution]

I assume you've tried repairing permissions with Disk Utility?

 

[JediMeister]

You should also be able to boot to a Mac OS Install DVD and reset the home folder permissions. This command is accessible from the password reset utility which is more commonly used to reset the administrator password of a computer running the Mac OS.

 

[Yalla-One]

Thanks for the answers!

I fixed this by changing the permissions on my home directory from the explorer. Just wanted to know if this is fixing the symptom or fixing the problem

 

[BlueRevolution]

Well, I don't see why the permissions would have changed in the first place, but I wouldn't worry about it unless the problem recurs. However, you should still repair permissions if you haven't done so. It's possible that there are other permissions errors elsewhere.