Re: Migrating /home from too small /dev/hda partition

> I rebooted.  My graphical login choked, however,
> because /home/dan didn't have write access, presumably
> because I was slingin' dirs as root.  So, I had to
> chmod -R /home.  (Without the -R recursive switch, kde
> still didn't have write access, and choked in the same
> fashion.)

What was needed (and still is) was most likely a "chown -R". If I
understood what you did correctly, your home now fully belongs to root,
with write access granted to everybody. Maybe you don't care because
you're the only user, still this is awfully insecure. 
If you still have the copy of your home in /opt/home, I'd recommend you
wipe /hope/dan completely, use "cp -a" to copy to it again, and do a
proper "chown dan:users -R /home/dan" (or dan:dan, depends which group
you belong to). You'll probably save yourself from some problems that
would occur later.

-- 
Jean Delvare
http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/