Cant delete/remove files in /opt

[Gerald Dachs]

Quoting Rajat <a.rajat at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> For some reason I am not able to remove any files from /opt directory. It
> says permission denied. Also chmod doesn't wanna work

If you have not the permission to remove a file, then you have not the  
permission
to changemod a file. This is expected behavior.

> For super user access i typed in su but the password - the same admin
> password with which I install\mount\login doesn't work !

Ubuntu has no root password by default. If you didn't change that, you have
to use 'sudo' with your normal users password and not 'su' with the root
password.

Gerald

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