File permissions?

[Jim Byrnes]

Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> 2009/12/25 Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net>:
>> I've been using Ubuntu for about two weeks now and am starting to get
>> used to it.  However, coming from an OS/2\Windows world file permissions
>> seem to be giving me some grief.
>>
>> Maybe if someone could tell me how to do a couple of specific tasks it
>> would become clearer to me.  I have Jedit loaded on all three of my
>> OS's. I have modified some mode files on the other OS's I would like to
>> use on Ubuntu.  I copied them to a shared folder on Ubuntu but I can't
>> copy them to /usr/share/jedit/modes which is where Jedit will look for them.
> 
> Is there a special reason why the files have to be located there? For
> most tasks, your personal files should be located somewhere in your
> home directory (home folder), called $HOME, which is an environment
> variable containing the address of your home folder. The ”~” means the
> same thing. So ~/MyFolder is the same thing as $HOME/MyFolder, which
> is the same thing as /home/Jim/MyFolder if your user name is Jim.
> If you still want to place your file at /usr/share/jedit/modes you
> have to do it with root permissions, unless you want to change the
> owner of the folder.

They were put there by the installaion of Jedit.  They are really not 
personal files.  They control syntax highlighting depending upon the 
type of file you are editing.  I just modified a couple of them to suit 
my taste.

> 
> You can do most things with a GUI and since other people have
> suggested doing it in the terminal, I will try to keep more to a GUI.
> If you don't have an icon for opening Nautilus (your file manager)
> with root permissions, open a terminal (!) and enter:
> gksudo nautilus
> (sudo nautilus will also do, but then you need to enter your password
> in the terminal instead of doing it in a dialogue…)
> Now look for your files and move them where you want them.
> When they are where you want them, right click them and click
> Properties, then click the permissions tab. Here you can change the
> owner of the file as well as the permissions. After changing the owner
> to yourself and given yourself the proper permissions, you should be
> able to do what you want with them with jedit.
> 
> If you don't have a icon for ”Nautilus as root”, you can easily create
> one. Ask if you can't figure out how.
> 
> Johnny Rosenberg
> 

Thanks for the info on the gui way to do it.  Sometimes the terminal can 
be a little overwhelming to a newbie.

Regards,  Jim

>> In that same vein, if I wanted to edit one of those files with Jedit how
>> could I get Jedit to open it for editing?
>>
>> Thanks,  Jim
>>
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