Same ole permissions problem

[Chris Mohler]

On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Douglas Pollard <dougpol1 at verizon.net> wrote:
>    I have been up and down on this a couple of weeks now and am no
> farther ahead. I must really be thick. :-(
>    I am trying to get going on making video in Cinelerra. I have had a
> lot of help from this group.
>    I was trying to change permissions and ownership to ( me user)
> Ubuntu crashed or at least locked up.  I rebooted and got a message that
> there was a problem and I would have to reboot as Root.  Apparently
> there was no user file.
>    I could not run so could not get on line help.  Never thought to run
> ubuntu off a cd to get help.  OH well!!  I reinstalled Ubuntu.
>     I have captured video with Kino and it presently belongs to root as
> It was captured using sudo. I need to give it to  Doug ( user) and
> change permissions so that I don't have to be root to run these videos.
>       I have one more problem I have files that came from xp on an
> nstf formated drive. If I move them to my homefile everyone has
> permission to read write and execute this needs to be fixed.
>         I moved one file to my home file and everyone has permission.
> That has to be changed.
>        Linux forums offers  Chmod 755 myfile.  What goes in place of
> myfile. I replaced with doug, the reply I get from bash is no such file
> or directory. If I can get past these stumbling blocks I can start doing
> video.

Hi Doug,

The main problem you have is that you are having to use sudo to
capture.  You should probably figure out how to capture as a normal
user if possible.

To change ownership I would:
1. install nautilus-open-terminal from Synaptic or apt-get
2. Browse to the folder with the video files
3. Right-click inside the folder and select "Open in Terminal"
4. then type (no quotes): "sudo chown doug.doug *" and press enter.
Close the terminal

Continuing to the NTFS files
5. Browse to the folder with the copied files.
6. Right-click inside the folder and select "Open in Terminal"
7. Type (no quotes): "chmod MODE -R *" and press enter - SEE BELOW FOR MODE

I'm not sure what permissions you want.  600 is read/write for the
owner and no access for anyone else. 644 is read/write for the owner
and read access for everyone. 755 is read/write/execute for the owner
and read/execute for everyone.  The chmod has an alternate syntax also
- see the man page.

Chris