On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 16:03 -0500, farna wrote: > Thanks James! Will try your recommendations. The changing permissions > is something in Ubuntu 10.10 -- has to do with the executable bit. > Ubuntu 10.10 won't let you change the executable bit in a Windows .exe > file unless you're signed in as the administrator. I don't think it > will allow changing that bit in Linux files unless signed in as admin > either. > What, not even if you own the file? Does "sudo chmod u+x exe_file" work? If sudo won't run chmod, you can fix that by editing the sudoers file with visudo, but be sure to read the visudo and sudoers man pages before you try that. > Linux (at least Ubuntu) is starting to get more and more like Windows > as far as locking users out of their own system. > I think thats a deliberate Ubuntu policy - make it more like Windows, I mean. Ubuntu has always diverged in small ways from the mainstream distros and is getting much further away with its new Unity desktop. However no worries, you can always try a different distro, e.g. Fedora (a full-fat Gnome distro) or even go back to Debian, the base distro for Ubuntu instead of just installing the next Ubunto version. Martin
