On Friday, February 28, 2020 at 1:22:39 AM UTC-8, MEGA GODZILLA 80000 wrote: > > Just installed weewx on a Raspberry Pi V4. Trying to change weewx.config > file to support my Acurite Weather station. When I try to save it, i get > the message failed because I don't have the right permission. Not real > familiar with Linux but I'm trying. I installed Raspbian as a normal > user. I guess that means I'm not the administrator or superuser? How do I > change the user to get the correct permissions to save the file? >
About 95% of the problems new pi users have is that they don't understand how Linux permissions work. The default Raspberry pi user is 'pi' who is non-privileged. Weewx runs as root which 'is' privileged. So all you need to do is to preface your command with "sudo" so that your non-privileged user runs the command 'with' privileges. It's notionally like Windows where you can RunAs administrator. So as Andrew replied, you run "sudo vi" or "sudo nano" or "sudo whatever-editor-you-are-using" and you'll be fine. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/d2a51c30-bc21-4ae1-a92b-eac287211fa5%40googlegroups.com.
