Not the owner of file folders in Jaunty
 

Hi All,

I am trying to extract a flash installation file to my mozilla/plugins folder but it keeps telling me that I don't have the correct permission to do this as I am not the owner. As I installed the OS and am the only user of the computer I cant see how this is true!! How do I get around this?

Thanks,
Paul.

Try to use the sudo command
When prompted for a password, give the users password

This will work if you have sudo priveledges, and have sudo installed. If you don't, then change to the root user and move the file.

then enter the root user password, sometimes the system administrator password. Be sure to log out of root afterwards.

As repo suggested, sudo is a very useful utility, if you don't yet have it installed. I would suggest getting it and configuring it to allow your standard user access to root commands when you type in your password.

Basic howto on configuring sudo

Sorry its taken me so long to reply!

I've tried the suggestions above and I get

"Authentication failure"

when I type in my login password.

Ok, I've been trying a bit more and managed to get into the folder (I think) although my original problem was still not fixed! In the end it was easy to get flash to work, I just followed the instructions here (http://foxyurl.com/K13) and here (http://foxyurl.com/K14)

Still plenty to learn!