I'm using Redhat 8 and can't figure this one out. If I don't log in as
root I can't save a document of any type. If I'm in a terminal I know too
su and I can save then in terminal but if I'm running say, Open Office
or something I can't save the file. Now If I su before I startx then
KDE starts which is fine but I try too and want too use Blackbox as a
rule.
Does that make sense? Does to me...Ha Ha!!

What I'd like to know is how I can save files not being root in X and I
don't want to put in roots password everytime I start kppp.

Hope someone can help!!
Thanks,

Zin

you must save them in your home folder.

If you are in your home folder then maybe you tried to change your username or something and got the permissions wrong now.
this should fix it

Thanks. If I want to save in another folder I need to change my permissions to that folder?

Zin

yes, exactly.

You may want to use group permissions if you have more than one user that will need access.

you can create a group and add users to it

groupadd groupname

gpasswd -a username groupname

chown root.groupname /path/to/foldername


chmod the folder for the permissions you want, most likely it will already be at 755

drwxr-xr-x

for group write access you want 775 group has rwx, other has rx

drwxrwxr-x

to prohibit other users not in the group use 770

drwxrwx---

chmod 770 /path/to/foldername