Same ole permissions problem

[Chris Mohler]

On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Douglas Pollard <dougpol1 at verizon.net> wrote:
> Chris Mohler wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>
> I installed  nautilus with synaptic but where is it?  I tried, click on
> Nautilus after installation went to permissions found a list of the
> paths but nothing there seems to take me to it. I have run into this
> before  and have not been able to figure it out.
>                         Thanks doug

Doug,

I advised you to install "nautilus-open-terminal" - a small package
that adds "Open in Terminal" to the right-click in Nautilus (the file
manager).  You might have to log out and log back in for it to appear
in the right-click menu.  I also assumed you are using Gnome - if
you're using KDE I'm not sure if there is an equivalent package.

Sorry for the confusion - I forgot about having to log out.

Chris