Re: [Sheflug] File & Write permissions

[Alex Hudson <home [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 18:57 +0000, Douglas G Mckendrick wrote:
> I have two users aswell as my root account.  My problem is, as my second
> user I cannot write to a floppy...no permissions.

Debian/Ubuntu tends to allow access to this kind of thing via groups.
>From the "Users & Groups" tool (System -> Administration), hit the
groups tab (you'll also probably need to tick "Show all... " at the
bottom, and add the user to the "floppy" group.

> And my first account which I would like to have more as administrator....
> cannot enter /home/seconduser, yet second user can read /home/firstuser.

That's odd; that's not how things get setup here. But anyway, you need
to set the permissions for "Other" users on that directory to read and
execute (not write). You can do that from Nautilus; find the directory,
right-click for Properties, and Permissions is in there.

Cheers,

Alex.

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