permission errors

[Dswissmiss]

Hi guys,
I'm really not sure what my problem is, so I'll give you all the symptoms.
First, when I boot up and type startx, I get this error: xauth: time out in locking authority file /home/doron/.Xauthority. This happens four times, then I get the nvidia logo, then it's back to the command line with the same error again.
When I first installed gentoo, I could only run gui's as root (fluxbox), so I figured I'd copy all of the hidden folders from /root to /home, and I could then run fluxbox. Now that I downloaded gnome, nothing works.
I logged into fluxbox again, and when I tried to start firefox I got this error:
(Gecko:18171): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Unable to create ~/.gnome directory: Permission denied
Could not create per-user gnome configuration directory `/home/doron/.gnome2/': Permission denied
I get permission errors all the time, which is why I downloaded gnome cause I figured I'm not smart enough to run fluxbox yet, but it seems I messed something up during the install process.

So basically, I think as a user, I don't have enough priveliges to create folders and such, so how do I give myself the necessary priveliges (too lazy to go through a thesaurus).

Sorry for rambling btw.

thanx
Dswissmiss

btw, I'm running Gentoo

[pbharris]

hello,
as root try chown -R user /home/user - i am guessing the directory is own by root.

[countach44]

also remember to make it owned by the group users (it doesn't matter too much, but hey)
chown -R user:users /home/user