No, it doesn't work. I used gksu nautilus and entered the password. Then I went to the file and right-clicked on it. I changed the permissions for all to read and write, but it immediately reverts back to read-only for everyone but the owner.
BTW, Nautilus spat out an error message to the console via stdout or stderr. It says, "Nautilus 7291 GNOMEUI-Warning ** Authentication rejected, reason: None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host based authentication failed." I'm not quite sure what that all means, but it doesn't sound promising ;) Interestingly, I was able to create a new file on /media/MYDATA, but now that it is created, I'm not able to change the permissions for the new file. On Feb 8, 5:09 pm, Shaun Marolf <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 13:53 -0800, Dos-Man 64 wrote: > > I'm not saying that drives and their files shouldn't be initially > > mounted as read-only; I just want to know how to override this. > > > I've got a file here named pic1.png. It's on a 4 GIG removable hp > > flash drive. When I right-click on it, it says the owner has read and > > write priviledges. It also says that root and others have only read- > > only priviledges. I'm trying to change this, but it isn't letting me. > > > (btw, I'm in dreamlinux right now) > > In Linux root has full command over the system. Despite permission > settings root can always change them. So even if root is set to read > only if you access the file as root you can change its permissions. Use > the command gksu nautilus and give either your root or sudo password > when prompted, the go to the file to change permissions. > > --Shaun -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
