Re: su

From: Paul Lutus (nospam_at_nosite.zzz)
Date: 09/30/03 

Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 22:35:37 -0700

sam owens wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 03:46:09 +0000, Raghu Vadapalli wrote:
>
>> check the parent directory or to that matter check your home directory
>> owner to see if you own it. just a check .
>>
>>
>>Your Right. If I save it in home I'm OK. Gotta look into those issues.

"Those issues" are called file permissions. Thay are there to keep you from
ruining your Linux installation. The solution is to save your documents in
your home directory. 

-- 
Paul Lutus
http://www.arachnoid.com

Relevant Pages

  • Re: home directory
    ... Douglas O'Neal writes: ... >> It's not a matter of being complicated, ... home directory returned by getpwent. ... the HOME environment variable when a user log in. ...
    (comp.os.linux.development.apps)
  • Re: Clean Up By Name
    ... I noticed this file still had the Computer icon in it and the ... course if I display my Computer icon again it would lay over top of this ... to copy a modified version of this file to everyone's home directory ... I know this doesn't really matter and it won't matter if I don't change ...
    (GNOME)
  • Re: Cross-Platform Windows plus Mac
    ... understand why this would matter. ... to use the same browser on all platforms. ... If your home directory is NFS mounted (a step that I haven't yet taken ...
    (comp.sys.mac.programmer.help)
  • Re: du not working for user using ksh
    ... with home directory in /apps/prd seem to all have this problem with ... it does not matter with directory i run du from all give the same ... the correct permissions for the user or group that you are using, ... least execution permission. ...
    (comp.unix.shell)
  • Re: Desktop folders are read only now
    ... >> change them to your login name on both the owner and group. ... > You are not the owner, so you cant change these permissions. ... is to make you the owner of your own home directory. ...
    (Fedora)