user permissions problems

[ben miller]

On 7/10/07, Jimmy Wu <jimmywu013 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Can anyone help me solve this mystery?
> Gedit won't let me save: It tells me Saving has been disabled by the system
> administrator, and the save menu/toolbar options are disabled (grayed out)
> However, I am the system administrator on my single-user Ubuntu machine (
> 7.04)
> Saving does work when I start gedit from the terminal with sudo
> I have no idea why this is happening.  I have gone to
> System>Administration>Users and Groups, but everything seems normal there
> What am I doing wrong?


Can you use the terminal to set permission for the files in that
directory? If  you can do that, does that cure the problem?