Messed up my home permission using deja-dup file restore

Oh boy did I mess things up, I ran deja-dup as root and created a backup of my /home/odroid and then my xserver crashed, I was able to recover however since my laptop's screen is busted, I only have the external monitor via hdmi hooked up. I was able to login blind, I just typed in my password on a empty screen with the ubuntu logo, the login screen was on my laptop but I can't see it cause it's broken. Anyway I was able to open a terminal using mouse right click and then I did sudo deja-dup and I got the deja-dup screen, and I used the backup I created before the xorg crash. Ever since then all my programs run as root, here is a ls -la from my home directory

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odroid@odroid:~$ ls -la total 4623428 drwxr-xr-x 37 odroid odroid 4096 Apr 24 17:19 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 3 2018 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 odroid odroid 103 Oct 14 2017 .apport-ignore.xml -rw------- 1 odroid odroid 77008 Apr 24 17:21 .bash_history -rw-r--r-- 1 odroid odroid 220 Oct 11 2017 .bash_logout -rw-r--r-- 1 odroid odroid 3775 Nov 1 2023 .bashrc drwx------ 2 odroid odroid 4096 Aug 28 2018 BDInfo drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 10 2018 bin drwxr-xr-x 20 odroid odroid 4096 Oct 3 2023 bluez-5.37 -rw-r--r-- 1 odroid odroid 1657760 Dec 28 2015 bluez-5.37.tar.xz drwx------ 27 odroid odroid 4096 Nov 4 2023 .cache drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 7 2018 chkrootkit-0.52 drwxr-xr-x 37 odroid odroid 4096 Mar 15 07:24 .config drwx------ 3 odroid odroid 4096 Oct 11 2017 .dbus drwxr-xr-x 2 odroid odroid 4096 May 11 14:19 Desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 odroid odroid 38 Jul 20 2021 .dmrc drwxr-xr-x 2 odroid odroid 4096 Jul 20 2021 Documents drwxr-xr-x 9 odroid odroid 4096 May 11 14:18 Downloads -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 12 2023 find -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 18 2018 firewall-6.txt drwxrwxr-x 6 odroid odroid 4096 Dec 18 2018 Firewall Chains -rw-r----- 1 root root 2236 Dec 8 15:54 firewall.txt drwxr-xr-x 2 odroid odroid 4096 Dec 20 2017 .fishBMC-data drwx------ 3 odroid odroid 4096 Oct 18 2023 .gconf -rw-r----- 1 odroid odroid 0 Sep 26 2023 .gksu.lock drwx------ 3 odroid odroid 4096 Oct 17 2017 .gnome drwx------ 4 odroid odroid 4096 Oct 17 2023 .gnome2 drwx------ 2 odroid odroid 4096 Oct 17 2023 .gnome2_private drwx------ 3 odroid odroid 4096 Apr 24 17:19 .gnupg -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 22 2018 grep drwx------ 2 root root 4096 May 7 2018 .gvfs drwxr--r-- 2 odroid odroid 4096 Apr 13 2020 .hardinfo drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 15 2017 .ibam -rw------- 1 odroid odroid 178892 Apr 24 17:19 .ICEauthority drwxrwxr-x 2 odroid odroid 4096 Mar 10 2020 .icons -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1708 Dec 13 2022 key.pem drwxr-xr-x 8 odroid odroid 4096 Oct 12 2017 .kodi -rw-rw---- 1 odroid odroid 4725582549 May 11 01:10 kodi-backup.tar.gz -rw-rw---- 1 odroid odroid 1074816 Jan 15 12:02 kodi_crashlog-20240115_120242.log -rw-rw---- 1 odroid odroid 1171731 Feb 24 08:32 kodi_crashlog-20240224_083221.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 20 2021 .lesshsQ -rw------- 1 root root 28 Nov 6 2018 .lesshst drwx------ 5 odroid odroid 4096 Sep 22 2020 .local -rw-r----- 1 odroid odroid 149 Jul 30 2021 lynis.log -rw-r----- 1 odroid odroid 14087 Jul 19 2021 lynis-report.dat -rw-r----- 1 root root 8 Oct 30 2023 mate-control-center -rwx------ 1 odroid odroid 285350 Dec 9 21:08 metadata.universal-5.5.14.zip drwxrwxr-x 3 odroid odroid 4096 Aug 29 2018 .mono drwx------ 5 odroid odroid 4096 Mar 13 2018 .mozilla drwxr-xr-x 2 odroid odroid 4096 May 10 23:05 Music drwxr-xr-x 2 odroid odroid 4096 Oct 22 2017 .nano -rw------- 1 odroid odroid 2251 Nov 11 2023 nohup.out -rw-r--r-- 1 odroid odroid 230 Oct 12 2017 .pam_environment drwxr-xr-x 2 odroid odroid 4096 Aug 18 2021 Pictures drwx------ 3 odroid odroid 4096 Oct 17 2017 .pki -rw-r--r-- 1 odroid odroid 655 Oct 11 2017 .profile drwxr-xr-x 2 odroid odroid 4096 Oct 11 2017 Public drwxr-x--- 5 odroid odroid 4096 Oct 30 2023 .python-eggs -rw-rw-r-- 1 odroid odroid 52 Mar 2 2018 quiet.conf -rw-rw-r-- 1 odroid odroid 358943 Dec 4 2017 repository.5star-1.0.2.zip -rwx------ 1 odroid odroid 357826 Dec 13 2017 repository.5star-1.0.6.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32739 Oct 17 2023 repository.linuxaddons-1.0.1.zip -rw------- 1 root root 1024 Dec 13 2022 .rnd -rw-r--r-- 1 odroid odroid 66 Oct 22 2017 .selected_editor -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2918 Oct 28 2017 sessionclean -rwxr-xr-x 1 odroid odroid 299339 Jan 11 2018 spectre-meltdown-checker.sh drwx------ 2 odroid odroid 4096 Nov 6 2023 .ssh -rw-r--r-- 1 odroid odroid 391324 Oct 30 2017 subtitles.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 odroid odroid 0 Oct 11 2017 .sudo_as_admin_successful drwxr-xr-x 2 odroid odroid 4096 Oct 11 2017 Templates -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 877 Apr 1 2018 test_results drwxrwxr-x 2 odroid odroid 4096 Mar 10 2020 .themes -rwx------ 1 odroid odroid 15026 Oct 29 2023 TotalTraffic-0.1-py2.6.egg -rwxrw-r-- 1 odroid odroid 89 Mar 10 2018 update-mydebs drwxr-xr-x 2 odroid odroid 4096 Oct 11 2017 Videos -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 265 Dec 2 18:31 .wget-hsts -rw-r--r-- 1 odroid odroid 177267 Dec 13 2022 wget-log -rw------- 1 odroid odroid 51 Apr 24 17:19 .Xauthority -rw-rw-r-- 1 odroid odroid 131 Oct 11 2017 .xinputrc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35 Oct 17 2023 .xprofile -rw-r----- 1 root root 66 Oct 30 2023 .xsession -rw------- 1 odroid odroid 2419033 May 11 18:10 .xsession-errors -rw------- 1 odroid odroid 7925 Apr 24 17:19 .xsession-errors.old

Here is my ls -la from /home/odroid/.config

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odroid@odroid:~/.config$ ls -la total 176 drwxr-xr-x 37 odroid odroid 4096 Mar 15 07:24 . drwxr-xr-x 37 odroid odroid 4096 Apr 24 17:19 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 odroid odroid 4096 May 7 2018 autostart drwx------ 14 odroid odroid 4096 Jan 2 2019 brave drwx------ 3 odroid odroid 4096 Jan 14 2019 BraveSoftware drwxr-xr-x 3 odroid odroid 4096 Apr 24 21:41 caja drwxrwxr-x 2 odroid odroid 4096 Nov 14 2017 Clementine drwxrwxr-x 2 odroid odroid 4096 May 11 18:25 dconf drwx------ 7 odroid odroid 4096 May 11 18:26 deluge drwx------ 2 odroid odroid 4096 Oct 29 2017 enchant drwx------ 3 odroid odroid 4096 Oct 30 2023 evolution drwxrwxr-x 3 odroid odroid 4096 Oct 11 2017 folder-color drwxr-xr-x 2 odroid odroid 4096 Mar 10 2018 gedit drwxr-x--- 2 odroid odroid 4096 Oct 30 2023 goa-1.0 drwx------ 2 odroid odroid 4096 May 11 17:05 gtk-2.0 drwx------ 2 odroid odroid 4096 Oct 11 2017 gtk-3.0 drwx------ 6 odroid odroid 4096 Apr 27 23:53 hexchat drwxr--r-- 2 odroid odroid 4096 Oct 12 2017 htop drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Oct 30 2023 ibus drwxr-xr-x 2 odroid odroid 4096 Jun 27 2018 libaccounts-glib drwxrwxr-x 3 odroid odroid 4096 Oct 11 2017 libreoffice drwx------ 4 odroid odroid 4096 Mar 10 2020 mate drwxrwxr-x 3 odroid odroid 4096 Oct 16 2017 mate-menu drwxr-xr-x 3 odroid odroid 4096 Oct 12 2017 mate-session drwx------ 3 odroid odroid 4096 Oct 17 2017 menus -rw-rw---- 1 odroid odroid 3555 Jan 7 22:48 mimeapps.list -rw-rw---- 1 odroid odroid 1739 Oct 17 2023 monitors.xml -rw-rw-r-- 1 odroid odroid 89 Oct 13 2017 pavucontrol.ini drwxrwxr-x 3 odroid odroid 4096 Oct 11 2017 plank drwxr-xr-x 2 odroid odroid 4096 Nov 5 2023 pluma drwx------ 2 odroid odroid 4096 Oct 18 2023 pulse drwxrwx--- 2 odroid odroid 4096 Oct 25 2023 qBittorrent -rw-rw---- 1 odroid odroid 113 Oct 8 2023 QtProject.conf drwxrwxr-x 2 odroid odroid 4096 Oct 11 2017 synapse drwxrwxr-x 2 odroid odroid 4096 Nov 11 2023 tilda drwx------ 5 odroid odroid 4096 May 11 18:23 transmission drwx------ 2 odroid odroid 4096 Dec 24 22:29 transmission-remote-gtk -rw-r--r-- 1 odroid odroid 4077 Nov 14 2017 Trolltech.conf drwxrwxr-x 3 odroid odroid 4096 Oct 11 2017 ubuntu-mate drwx------ 2 odroid odroid 4096 Oct 11 2017 update-notifier -rw------- 1 odroid odroid 632 Oct 11 2017 user-dirs.dirs -rw-rw-r-- 1 odroid odroid 5 Oct 11 2017 user-dirs.locale drwxrwxr-x 2 odroid odroid 4096 May 31 2019 vlc drwxrwxr-x 2 odroid odroid 4096 Nov 15 2017 yelp

As you can see transmission is run as root and all my external hard drives mount themselves as root

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odroid@odroid:/media/odroid$ ls -la total 4616 drwxr-x---+ 21 root root 4096 May 11 18:10 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 30 2023 .. drwx------ 1 odroid odroid 131072 May 11 14:05 Backup drwx------ 1 odroid odroid 262144 Jan 1 1970 Movies1 drwx------ 1 odroid odroid 262144 Jan 1 1970 Movies10 drwx------ 1 odroid odroid 262144 Jan 1 1970 Movies11 drwx------ 1 odroid odroid 262144 Jan 1 1970 Movies12 drwx------ 1 odroid odroid 262144 Jan 1 1970 Movies13 drwx------ 1 odroid odroid 262144 Jan 1 1970 Movies14 drwx------ 1 odroid odroid 262144 Jan 1 1970 Movies15 drwx------ 1 odroid odroid 262144 Jan 1 1970 Movies2 drwx------ 1 odroid odroid 262144 Jan 1 1970 Movies3 drwx------ 1 odroid odroid 262144 Jan 1 1970 Movies4 drwx------ 1 odroid odroid 262144 Jan 1 1970 Movies5 drwx------ 1 odroid odroid 262144 Jan 1 1970 Movies6 drwx------ 1 odroid odroid 262144 Jan 1 1970 Movies7 drwx------ 1 odroid odroid 262144 Jan 1 1970 Movies8 drwx------ 1 odroid odroid 262144 Jan 1 1970 Movies9 drwx------ 1 odroid odroid 262144 Jan 1 1970 Movies and drwx------ 1 odroid odroid 131072 May 11 18:12 Mushkin drwx------ 1 odroid odroid 262144 Jan 1 1970 SamsungTV

I tried editing /etc/fstab but none of the external drives are listed in there

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odroid@odroid:~$ sudo cat /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices # that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5). # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> # / was on /dev/sda2 during installation UUID=c5465792-5db5-4e8f-9a55-f88e549ff30c / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1 # /boot/efi was on /dev/sda1 during installation UUID=D836-8E85 /boot/efi vfat umask=0077 0 1 # swap was on /dev/sda3 during installation UUID=fbaccbc0-144d-4e3a-a2a7-ba18f59cca5e none swap sw 0 0

I am at a loss. I have a spare laptop, the same exact model, I was thinking of swapping out the nvme from the broken one into the other one so I could see the login screen so I could create a new user but that's a last resort, can you guys help me?