User Power help!Urgent

[Dark Star]

Hi all
I was about to installl aMSN skin but while comping it into /usr/share.... I got a message that i do not have powers to access the folder.. Even some folder that were made in windows are un deletable it say you do not have root poswer... How can I get that poswer help me pl z


Thanks

[QwertyManiac]

Um, what you need here is temporary root access.

Via terminal:

affix sudo to any command you wish to run, even cp or mv

Or for a root-session Nautilus [GUI]:

gksudo nautilus

And then you can browse your folders as root.

[Dark Star]

Is this teemporary root.. powers to my acounts How to give permanent Btw from where did you get alll that commands

Plz be a bit clear I downloaded that package and I can't copy it help me

[QwertyManiac]

You wanna move a folder to /usr/share ?

sudo mv <extracted file/folder> /usr/share/amsn/skins

You don't need permanent root for all this, a simple sudo will do good

And if you dont want hassles, just hit Ctrl + H in Home directory, and copy the file/folder into .amsn/skins/ folder. No root or any other method required here.

[praka123]

In UNIX/Linux users do not login as root as root user.the only way is via "su" or "sudo"
though for files u can fix permissions as SUID.

if u r at doubt with any commands try the manpage from terminal as:

man  commandname

or for sudo

man  sudo

[QwertyManiac]

And about commands, you learn them on the way.

[vignesh]

You can also use the switch user command.

su -c "type the command here'

and enter the root password and the command will be executed.

[Dark Star]

Kinda confusing can any . Though I got that can't log in as Root but how to copy It I am not downloading I had already downloaded the package as .zip and now unzipped I need to copy the folder 2 place 1 in /usr that I can't and other in /home that I did.

Now how to copy the .

[QwertyManiac]

Arg,

Here's an example: I wanna move a folder called ABC to /usr/ Ok?

qwerty@qwerty-desktop:~$ sudo mv ABC /usr/
Password:

And hit enter, you are done. [No output means the job went successful]

[Dark Star]

Hey thanks This worked thanks for example now I can move any file .. so to delete we should write del

[vignesh]

rmdir to delete an empty directory

rm to remove files and

rm -r to remove directory with contents

and read a few guides at www.tldp.org. You can learn the basic commands there

[Dark Star]

Err. these are DOS Commands so it means I can get those from the command I learnt in 11

[vignesh]

No ! Read the guides I pointed you too.. Here this should do

http://tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/intro-linux.pdf

[QwertyManiac]

No, shell commands all don't match DOS ones, its way far advanced than that

For a quick reference, you can try:
http://www.ss64.com/bash/

And for removal, if I wish to remove my ABC folder, then

rm (or sudo rm, if you need permissions) -R ABC

Or if ABC was a file,

rm ABC

[anantkhaitan]

Originally Posted by Shashwat Pant

Is this teemporary root.. powers to my acounts How to give permanent

Ok Its possible but strongly recommended NOT TO LOGIN AS ROOT

1> Open Terminal. Then provide root password by issuing following command (AFAIK root password is not there by default in Ubuntu like system)

$ sudo passwd root

2> Then System > Administration > Login Window > Security. There Enable "Allow local system administrator login"

3> Do not login as root

[eddie]

Shouldn't we recommend gksudo to newbies? I mean he just needed to copy a folder to the location and he could have done that by using `gksudo nautilus`? What do you guys say? Or am I thinking on wrong lines?

[anantkhaitan]

^^
Yeah thats what I do..

[QwertyManiac]

I suggested him that one, he didn't take it, so I told the harder way and he liked it I guess Terminal ftw!

[eddie]

Originally Posted by QwertyManiac

I suggested him that one

Ah, I see now

[Dark Star]

Haha I did both and working fine L Thanks to all of you Btw 1 'st 1 was way better .. Lets try this 1 too

[praka123]

the thing u just understood was called file permission system in UNIX-like Operating systems.this is the reason why u simply cant access some directories,files.
and that itself prevents Viruses,spywares to be able to run on Linux.so no need for anti-virus,anti-spyware,anti-anything<add tag>

Differences between operating systems

Unix-like and otherwise POSIX-compliant systems, including Linux-based systems and Mac OS X (through version 10.3), have a simple system for managing individual file permissions. POSIX also specifies a system of access control lists, but it is only implemented by certain file systems and operating systems.
DOS variants (including the Microsoft products MS-DOS, Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me) do not have permissions. There is a "read-only" attribute that can be set or unset on a file by any user or program.
Microsoft Windows NT and its derivatives (including Windows 2000 and Windows XP), as well as VMS and OpenVMS use access control lists (ACLs) to administer a more complex and varied set of permissions.
Classic Mac OSes are similar to DOS variants and DOS based Windows: they do not support permissions, but only a "Protected" file attribute.
Mac OS X, beginning with version 10.4 ("Tiger"), supports both the use of complex access control lists (ACLs) and the traditional POSIX-compliant Unix-like simple system for managing individual file permissions. It also still supports the Mac OS Classic's "Protected" attribute.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_sy...rating_systems
read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system_permissions
http://tldp.org is a nice site for Understanding different Linux and GNU software basics and they got good Howtos.
LINUX NEWBIE ADMINISTRATOR GUIDE
www.linuxnewbieguide.org
www.ubuntuvideo.com/ -video guide

[Dark Star]

Thanks a ton for the link

[vignesh]

I already told him to vist tldp.org.. Its a great place to start