user permissions problems

[Jimmy Wu]

> the permissions for most of the files are rw-r--r--, which means I should
> be able to edit them
>
oops:) meant to say

> I don't know why I can't


>
> On 7/10/07, ben miller < wheelscribe at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 7/10/07, Jimmy Wu < jimmywu013 at gmail.com> 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?
> >
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