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Wayne Smith AdminPublisher at earthlink.net
Sat Feb 16 03:59:54 UTC 2008


NoOp wrote:
> On 02/14/2008 08:02 PM, Wayne Smith wrote:
>   
>> NoOp wrote:
>>     
>>> On 02/14/2008 07:34 PM, NoOp wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Do you mean your entire home directory is now root, or just the
>>>> 4L files?
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Correction: Do you mean your entire home directory is now owned by
>>> root, or just the 4L files?
>>>
>>> ls -l
>>>
>>> will show you the ownership of the directories and files.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Correction: It looks like the converted alien file is owned by root,
>> as well as my slave drive.
>>
>>     
>
> No idea regarding your slave drive (you provided no details), but you
> can change it with sudo chown -R  and chmod -R but I recommend that you
> provide some details before you attempt trying any of those commands.
> You can seriously screw up your permissions if you are not careful &
> then we'd have a very long (or short) thread depending on the outcome.
>
> As for your converted alien file(s), here is the easiest for you perhap.
> >From a terminal:
>
> gksu nautilus
>
> That will bring up nautilus in root mode. You can then browse to the
> file(s) (home, your username/directory, then the location where the
> files are located) and right-click. Select "Properties" and then
> "Permissions". You can then change the owner to whatever your system allows.
>
> Note: careful with that one as well... you are now in a root browser and
> can change/delete, etc., any file on the system. So use some caution &
> common sense when in that application.
>
>
>
>   
Sorry it took so long to reply. What info or details do you need on the 
Slave Drive????




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