user permissions problems

[Jimmy Wu]

the permissions for most of the files are rw-r--r--, which means I should be
able to edit them
I don't why I can't

On 7/10/07, ben miller <wheelscribe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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?
>
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