Cant delete/remove files in /opt

Carl Friis-Hansen carl.friis-hansen at carl-fh.com
Fri Jan 25 13:57:41 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 14:18 +0100, Rajat 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\m ount\login doesn't work ! 
> 
> Could you please let me know if I am going wrong somewher? 

Hi,
You are almost there, but instead of su, use sudo followed by the
command.
Carl Friis-Hansen





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