PCLinux 2007

[athomas]

I am having permissions problems with pclinux 07. When I am logged in with my account (not root) however I gave my account root permissions, I cannot copy anything into var/www/html, says permission denied. Anything I should check on?

 

[Anti-Trend]

I am having permissions problems with pclinux 07. When I am logged in with my account (not root) however I gave my account root permissions, I cannot copy anything into var/www/html, says permission denied. Anything I should check on?

How do you mean "root permissions"? Unix-like systems handle permissions differently than you're used to with Windows where admin means running everything with a dangerous amount of privileges full-time. Perhaps you're talking about 'sudo' rights to run any command as root? Try the following:

sudo -l

*That's a lowercase "L" by the way

That command will list the commands you're allowed to run via sudo, and If it displays something like the following:

User athomas may run the following commands on this host:
    (ALL) ALL

...then more than likely, you have an Ubuntu/OS X style permissions scheme. You are not root per se, though you have the ability to get root privileges. Just prepend a 'sudo' command before whatever operation you're trying to run and you'll run it as root rather than with your normal user privileges. If you'd prefer a full-time root shell, you can get root as an "admin" user by doing the following:

sudo su -

 

[athomas]

Yeah basically that is what I want to accomplish. However even under root, I don't have modify permissions to this directory.

 

[Anti-Trend]

Yeah basically that is what I want to accomplish. However even under root, I don't have modify permissions to this directory.

So you're running something like this?

sudo cp [I][COLOR="Gray"]/path/to/file[/COLOR][/I] /var/www/html/

 

[athomas]

So you're running something like this?

sudo cp [I][COLOR="Gray"]/path/to/file[/COLOR][/I] /var/www/html/

No, I haven't changed anything from defaults. I've never had this issue before. So I should just run the sudo command?

 

[Anti-Trend]

No, I haven't changed anything from defaults. I've never had this issue before. So I should just run the sudo command?

I'm not sure which "defaults" you're talking about. But basically if you don't have R/W permissions in that directory as your user account, you will have to run sudo first in order to elevate your permissions to root for that operation (as illustrated above).