Re: [LUG] Problems with Evolution

[Jon Haynes <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Ideally, you'd chmod them back to what they were before the backup.  Alas, 
> that's probably difficult to work out, so to get yourself out of the fix it's 
> probably a workable short term solution to chmod +w each file.  This may be 
> less secure that you'd eventually like, but it *will* get your mail back and 
> give you some breathing space to work out what the permissions should really 
> be.

Probably be secure enough if you only give the user write permission:

chmod -R u+w /home/peter/evolution/

Jon

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