nope, logging out and back in doesn't fix the problem :( <div>On 7/10/07, Jimmy Wu <<a href="mailto:jimmywu013@gmail.com">jimmywu013@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">doing the grep as you said gives: adm:x:4:jimmywu,guest dialout:x:20:cupsys,jimmywu,guest cdrom:x:24:haldaemon,jimmywu,guest floppy:x:25:haldaemon,jimmywu,guest audio:x:29:jimmywu,guest dip:x:30:jimmywu,guest video:x:44:jimmywu plugdev:x:46:haldaemon,jimmywu,guest scanner:x:104:cupsys,hplip,jimmywu,guest netdev:x:112:jimmywu lpadmin:x:113:jimmywu powerdev:x:115:haldaemon,jimmywu admin:x:117:jimmywu fuse:x:119:jimmywu jimmywu:x:1000:jimmywu,root I am listed under admin:x:117 I will try logging out and back in after I send this email @James - launching gedit from the Applications menu won't let me save, nor will launching it from the terminal as just plain "gedit". Only starting gedit as sudo (or gksu) lets me save files. This is extremely annoying, as I should be able to save files to my own home directory while logged on as me, without bothering about sudo root privileges - Jimmy<div> <div>On 7/10/07, Njoku, George O. <<a href="mailto:njokug@winthrop.edu" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">njokug@winthrop.edu</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"> <div> I would do a…. # grep "username" /etc/group Make sure your "username" is listed in admin group Admin:x::112:"username" Then try login out of X…then log back in George <div style="border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(181, 196, 223) -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color; border-width: 1pt medium medium; padding: 3pt 0in 0in;"> From: <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">ubuntu-users-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">ubuntu-users-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com</a>] On Behalf Of Jimmy Wu Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 5:00 PM To: Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions Subject: Re: user permissions problems </div><div> <div> <blockquote style="border-style: none none none solid; border-color: -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: medium medium medium 1pt; padding: 0in 0in 0in 6pt; margin-left: 4.8pt; margin-right: 0in;"> the permissions for most of the files are rw-r--r--, which means I should be able to edit them </blockquote> oops:) meant to say I don't know why I can't <blockquote style="border-style: none none none solid; border-color: -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: medium medium medium 1pt; padding: 0in 0in 0in 6pt; margin-left: 4.8pt; margin-right: 0in;"> <div> <div> On 7/10/07, ben miller < <a href="mailto:wheelscribe@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">wheelscribe@gmail.com</a>> wrote: On 7/10/07, Jimmy Wu < <a href="mailto:jimmywu013@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">jimmywu013@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Can anyone help me solve this mystery? > Gedit won't let me save: It tells me Saving has been disabled by the system > administrator, and the save menu/toolbar options are disabled (grayed out) > However, I am the system administrator on my single-user Ubuntu machine ( > 7.04) > Saving does work when I start gedit from the terminal with sudo > I have no idea why this is happening. I have gone to > System>Administration>Users and Groups, but everything seems normal there > What am I doing wrong? Can you use the terminal to set permission for the files in that directory? If you can do that, does that cure the problem? -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users </a> </div> </div> </blockquote> </div> </div></div> </div> -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> </div></blockquote></div>