having trouble dragging files to Gnome desktop permission problem

[Robin Laing]

Scott Berry wrote:
> My father has a permission problem whenever he wants to drag an item 
> from a folder or directory to the desktop.  Here is an example:
> "/home/SonyCam" cannot be moved because you do not have permissions to 
> change it or it's parrent folder.
>  
> The buttons are Retry and Cancel any help would be appreciated.
>  
> Scott
> 

This is normal under standard permissions.  You have to change the 
permissions and in the case of /home/{directory}, you will have to do it 
as root.

Here is a handy refresher.
http://dmiessler.com/study/unixlinux_permissions/

Files within /home/SonyCam could be moved/copied if the immutable bit is 
set to the right value and groups are created.   Or the directory could 
be setup with no security.


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