Robert Fisher wrote: > On Friday 15 June 2007 5:50 pm, Reg wrote: > >> Nick Rout wrote: >> >>> Well it is clearly mounted read/write (rw) so it is more likely a >>> permissions thing. Who owns the files? Try ls -l /music and see who >>> owns the files. >>> > See the link below for an overview of permissions in Linux > > http://www.cae.wisc.edu/site/public/?title=linpermissions > > so I take it these files I am talking about are owned by the root user? if I log in as root ....... by entering su - I should have write access? but I dont, if I log in as a super user via kde> applications> system> file manager> file manager super user mode> I do have write access. This begs the question: why bother having reg as a user at all when he has stuff all access to anything? why not just have a profile as root and do everything as that person? it would save having to become root all the time? or is my logic somewhat skewed here? :-)
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