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I've just upgraded to Mandrake 9.1 and, as all Linux upgrades, I'm passing through some hard times here .
I need help with a newbie thing though... I've created a root and it's password and an ordinary user as usual. The problem is, my ordinary user has no right to write any file ( create folder, compile, everything) I was wondering how do I add permissions to this user to be able to write normaly instead of need to log in as root each and everytime I need to write a file .
Any help would be great. Thanks
P.S: Ive search the forum for this, did not find anything
Originally posted by Megaman X The problem is, my ordinary user has no right to write any file ( create folder, compile, everything) I was wondering how do I add permissions to this user to be able to write normaly instead of need to log in as root each and everytime I need to write a file .
What do you mean by "write normaly"? Surely the user can create and modify files and directories with its own directory(etc. /home/user) If you want the user to have special permissions that only root has you should check out the 'sudo' command.
As Crashed_Again says, normal users don't (by default in most distributions) have permission to write anything outside of /home/username, /tmp, and occasionally a couple other places. Users shouldn't be writing anywhere else most of the time, anyway.
If even these are off-limits to your user, make sure the user's home directory is owned by the user, and that the owner has read/write permission.
Thanks guys for the help. I could fix it using the Userfonfig. It was something really odd what happens. Sorry that I was not so clear above. But the problem is that my user did not have permission to write into his own folder (/home/user). Now things seems to be going fine... It was just a temporary panic here
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