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 [B]sudo[/B] 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

*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:
*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]

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]

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