which Linux?

[Peter Alcibiades]

I have never, ever had to have a user change permissions in a terminal. 
Never.  And this goes back around 10 years.  

What does sometimes happen is that when an email attachment arrives, and the
user saves it to another folder, it may be marked read only.  Or, when
he/she opens such an attachment in OpenOffice it will be opened as read
only.  

So then they just use the file manager to change the permission.  Why would
you have them use a terminal?  I do myself but why put ordinary people
through it any more than you would in Windows? Or in OpenOffice they do save
as.   

Yes, you have to explain this.  I just tell them it may seem a bit
irritating, but its just the system being paranoid about security, and
no-one has ever been bothered by it.

Needing to change executability is very very rare, because of course all
application installations are being done through the package manager. 
Livecode apps are different in this respect.  Presumably when people package
their Livecode Linux apps for distribution they include a shell script which
does all this stuff....?   

Peter


slylabs13 wrote
> 
> And can I say, after over 20 years of IT experience that the unix/linux
> file permissions are as inane a thing as I think I have ever seen? 
> 
> Really? They want end users to have to edit the permissions for all the
> files they create?? In a TERMINAL??? Really????? 
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> On Jul 3, 2012, at 1:42 PM, Warren Samples wrote:
> 
>> On 07/03/2012 03:30 PM, Colin Holgate wrote:
>>> All the options in Permissions are grayed out. It says the owner is
>>> "root".
>> 
>> 
>> Open a terminal and type:
>> 
>> sudo chown <your user> <path to file>
>> 
>> 
>> Replace <your user> with your user's name. Type the root password at the
>> prompt. Should do it.
>> 
>> Good luck,
>> 
>> Warren
>> 
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