moving folders

[Norman Silverstone]

On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 16:43 +0100, Erik Bågfors wrote:
> Lot's of people have answered in the "cli" way.
> 
> The GUI way is,
> As user 2, navigate to /home/user1/Desktop
> drag the folder to your desktop
> 
> 
> In case user1 hasn't given user2 permissions to read his Desktop
> directory this might not work.

I tried this but it did not work and I assume that user2 did not have
the required permissions. For future reference how are the permissions
given?