Cant delete/remove files in /opt

[Upul Godage]

Hi,

Try 'sudo rm /opt/filename' and give your user account password.

When you type 'su' alone you are login into root account which is disabled
in Ubuntu by default. See
http://www.ubuntux.org/how-to-change-the-root-password-in-ubuntu

When you type 'sudo something' you are using your user account but with root
privileges.

Upul


On Jan 25, 2008 6:48 PM, Rajat <a.rajat at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> For some reason I am not able to remove any files from /opt directory. It
> says permission denied. Also chmod doesn't wanna work
>
> For super user access i typed in su but the password - the same admin
> password with which I install\mount\login doesn't work !
>
> Could you please let me know if I am going wrong somewher?
>
> Thanks
> Rajat
>
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