user permissions problems

[James Takac]

On Wednesday 11 July 2007 06:32:24 Jimmy Wu 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?
>
> Thanks,
> - Jimmy

This may seem like a silly q, but where are you using gedit from? from your 
regular account? And you're trying to save to a restricted folder? try 
typinig in a terminal "gksudo gedit" without the quotes and that will start 
it with root privelages. Or if you have nautilus scripts installed. right 
click in a folder or the desktopp, choose scripts, then root-gedit