Comment 15 for bug 481825

C de-Avillez,
Sorry if I came across as aggressive too. I was desperately tired and felt extremely frustrated. When I woke in the morning I felt like an arse, so my apologies.

Thanks for the idea on an app. The biggest problem I had with using chown/chmod was the -R command. It works fine until it comes across the .gvfs in your home folder. Even as sudo it won't allow me to change. I've read about it, and it seems to be designed that way for reasons I don't understand. There is a steep learning curve when using the CLI.

My best solution is to log is:
1) Log in as user of accout
2) Start Nautilus
3) navigate (via Nautilus) to the home folder.
4) Right click on the folder your own folder within home
5) goto Properties
6) goto Permissions
7) set up desired permissions
8) click on "Apply Permissions to Enclosed files"
9) Mission accomplished

It has been recommended that I
"- edit your personal umask in ~/.bash_profile, which is not so hard to do, and possibly to the same in /etc/profile for new users too"

This is part of the CLI learning curve. I don't know how to do it, but if anyone could give me some advice I'd greatly appreciate it.

Thanks for the help.
Lee