File permissions problem

[Ansgar Burchardt]

Hi,

"David McNally" <david3333333 at gmail.com> writes:
> I'm trying to be able to access and edit files that aren't in my home folder,
> but the computer says that I don't have permission to access the files.
>
> I'm the only person that has ever used this computer.

Files not in /home usually belong to root (the administration account),
some belong to other system accounts.  On Ubuntu you can not directly
log in as root, but you can use sudo to access the root account.
See [1] for an explanation how to do this.

Regards,
Ansgar

[1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo

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