[1cookie]

hi

I'm doing some programming/web developing on my local machine and I want full read/write access to a folder @ /var/www - only the OS won't let me. See screen-shot.

Ive looked in the manual, it just points me to: Right click -> Properties -> Permissions, every things greyed out, buh!

help please

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[moopet]

1cookie, on 21 March 2010 - 02:02 PM, said:

hi

I'm doing some programming/web developing on my local machine and I want full read/write access to a folder @ /var/www - only the OS won't let me. See screen-shot.

Ive looked in the manual, it just points me to: Right click -> Properties -> Permissions, every things greyed out, buh!

help please

The folder is owned by root. So you either need to run nautilus as root (hit alt-f2 and type "gksudo nautilus" without the quotes) and then you'll have full access to everything, or change permissions on the command line.
This will do what you want:

sudo chmod -R 777 /var/www

But this is just a straight answer to your question - you might want to read up on what permissions are for and which users should have what. There's probably a better solution to your problem than this sledgehammer approach. Also, be careful - a typo in that command can do serious damage to your files, and the copy of nautilus that you'd be running should be closed as soon as you finish changing permissions because it's too easy to forget and delete the wrong thing! With great power comes great responsibility.

[1cookie]

Very helpful post Moopet, many thanks...