user permissions problems

[jonathan]

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
See if file your editing is set to read only if so change permisions for 
the file so you can edit it.
go to the directory where file is and type chmod 777 filename.