having trouble dragging files to Gnome desktop permissionproblem

[Scott Berry]

Thanks that is a good refresher cause I have always had trouble with 
permissions.

Scott


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robin Laing" <Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca>
To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 10:07 AM
Subject: Re: having trouble dragging files to Gnome desktop 
permissionproblem


> Scott Berry wrote:
>> My father has a permission problem whenever he wants to drag an item from 
>> a folder or directory to the desktop.  Here is an example:
>> "/home/SonyCam" cannot be moved because you do not have permissions to 
>> change it or it's parrent folder.
>>  The buttons are Retry and Cancel any help would be appreciated.
>>  Scott
>>
>
> This is normal under standard permissions.  You have to change the 
> permissions and in the case of /home/{directory}, you will have to do it 
> as root.
>
> Here is a handy refresher.
> http://dmiessler.com/study/unixlinux_permissions/
>
> Files within /home/SonyCam could be moved/copied if the immutable bit is 
> set to the right value and groups are created.   Or the directory could be 
> setup with no security.
>
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