All files under Home folder are write protected by unknown username

Question

Using Ubuntu 16.04, I gave all the permission of my home folder to an unknown username and now I am unable to write to the files under my home folder including Documents, Downloads etc...

How do I give back permission to the current user account?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 07 '18 at 14:34

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To change the ownership of a directory recursively run

sudo chown -R USER: PATH

and replace USER with the user name and PATH with the path of the directory tree in question (here: the home directory).

answered Mar 07 '18 at 14:34

David Foerster

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All files under Home folder are write protected by unknown username

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