On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 10:45 -0500, Paleoethnobotanist wrote: > That's one of the things I've been trying to figure out. I've changed > permissions to include the necessary folders, but not ownership > (trying to figure out how to do that right now). > >From the command line you use the chown utility. If it complains that you don't have permission to make the change, run chown as root or use sudo. If you prefer using the GUI, then the file permissions are accessed from the file manager (Nautilus under Gnome) They are in the Permissions tab of the Properties pop-up. If you have several files to change it will be quicker with to use chown than to go in via the GUI, since the one command can change several files at once. If its simply that the files aren't owned by the user who should own them then chown/changing permissions should do the trick. If the files are in another user's directory, make sure both users are in the same group or create a group for the purpose and add it to all appropriate users. Then change the file's group permissions with chmod to allow the access you need. Martin
