Re: gedit ownership problem

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Yard, John wrote:
When using gedit, I have users who cannot edit a file owned by
another user, even if the linux permissions
allow them ( say even 777 ).
What is the circumvention of this problem ?

JYard


Not knowing gedit in detail, I'll have to guess. Possibly gedit creates a temporary copy of the file in the same directory as the existing file, and that requires write permission on the directory.

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