I have never, ever had to have a user change permissions in a terminal. Never. And this goes back around 10 years.
What does sometimes happen is that when an email attachment arrives, and the user saves it to another folder, it may be marked read only. Or, when he/she opens such an attachment in OpenOffice it will be opened as read only. So then they just use the file manager to change the permission. Why would you have them use a terminal? I do myself but why put ordinary people through it any more than you would in Windows? Or in OpenOffice they do save as. Yes, you have to explain this. I just tell them it may seem a bit irritating, but its just the system being paranoid about security, and no-one has ever been bothered by it. Needing to change executability is very very rare, because of course all application installations are being done through the package manager. Livecode apps are different in this respect. Presumably when people package their Livecode Linux apps for distribution they include a shell script which does all this stuff....? Peter slylabs13 wrote > > And can I say, after over 20 years of IT experience that the unix/linux > file permissions are as inane a thing as I think I have ever seen? > > Really? They want end users to have to edit the permissions for all the > files they create?? In a TERMINAL??? Really????? > > Bob > > > On Jul 3, 2012, at 1:42 PM, Warren Samples wrote: > >> On 07/03/2012 03:30 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: >>> All the options in Permissions are grayed out. It says the owner is >>> "root". >> >> >> Open a terminal and type: >> >> sudo chown <your user> <path to file> >> >> >> Replace <your user> with your user's name. Type the root password at the >> prompt. Should do it. >> >> Good luck, >> >> Warren >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> [email protected] >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/which-Linux-tp4651539p4651609.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
