user permissions problems

[Jimmy Wu]

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

On 7/10/07, Njoku, George O. <njokug at winthrop.edu> wrote:
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>  I would do a….
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> # grep "username" /etc/group
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> Make sure your "username" is listed in admin group
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> Admin:x::112:"username"
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> Then try login out of X…then log back in
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> George
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> *From:* ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:
> ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] *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
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> the permissions for most of the files are rw-r--r--, which means I should
> be able to edit them
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> oops:) meant to say
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> I don't know why I can't
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> On 7/10/07, *ben miller* < wheelscribe at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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?
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> 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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