Permission problem

[Dirk]

I added a new dir in /home/usr and tried to save some emails to it but I am told ; "Could not open file for writing. I realize I need to studt files and permissions more but its like a wall in my head. I 775'd the dir but can't write to it.

[dvdnut]

/home/usr ? are you sure?

they are usually /home/username
chown it by root from whatever to you

i cant remember the syntax but maybe the dir doesnt belong to you

[Keyser Soze]

do an ls -lio find out who it belongs to and you can like he said do a chown dir_name user_name