Chris Montgomery wrote: > > Newbie alert... > > I am trying to install the StarOffice 6 beta into my /usr/local directory, > as a user (not root). I cannot create a subdirectory > (/usr/local/staroffice6.0) since /usr/local is owned by root. How can I > change this to my user account?
If you have access to the root account then just become root and type "chown your_account_name /usr/local". With the chown command the owner of a file can give ownership to another user, root can also change ownership of files he doesn't own. See chown(1) for more details. Generally though it's better to be root when installing things. > I have the same question about being able > to write to my windows directories...I can read from them but not write to > them since they are owned by root. Unfortunately you can't change permissions on a vfat filesystem, but if security is not a concern you could just give rw permission to user "other" on the directories you need to write to. I don't know if there is a better way than this, but at least it works. Regards Andreas _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
