hey,

i have problem how to get access to file which belong to another user .. in other words i was working in my linux (Ubuntu) after that i have created a new user account and by mistake i have deleted the account that i have the work on. now i login to the new created account and i am surpried that i can't read the files which in the home folder which belong to the deleted account i can see the files but i can't read them it seems that i was stupid and didn't let the other group any access !! help me please how to read the files all what i want to copy them .. ?? please i need quick help

Here is what would do.

Go to a terminal window

use the command to get a root shell
sudo bash

go to the root of the home directory
cd /home

then change the permissions on the directory please substitute <directory> appropriately
chmod 777 <directory> -R

Please note that the above command will make everything in that directory and recursively 777 (read+write+execute to everyone)

Hope this helps

An alternative to using chmod... would be to use chown -R <newusername>:<newgroupname> <directory>, to assign ownership of the directory and all files in it to your new user (which I presume is what you'll want to do).

Specifying the groupname is optional, but a good idea if you're using a distro that doesn't have a general group like users to which all normal users belong.