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Unable to access folder

Asked by Sam

hi

I am log on ubuntu as administrator and on command terminal its show below
ashish@ashish-laptop:~$

here i applied sudo su command this output is as follow
root@ashish-laptop:/home/ashish#
and apply following commands

root@ashish-laptop:/home/ashish#cd Desktop

root@ashish-laptop:/home/ashish/Desktop#mkdir tmp
root@ashish-laptop:/home/ashish/Desktop# cd tmp
root@ashish-laptop:/home/ashish/Desktop/tmp#

Now lock icon is displaying on the folder and when i try to access this folder n try to do some changes error is showing that you are not the owner. You cannot change the permission.

" And the owner is showing as root."

I am only the administrator thn why I cant do any changes on this folder n how I can changes its ownership or can access this folder.

Kindly help me

thanks

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Best Ian Ace (iaculallad) said : 		#1

Yes, it should display a lock folder since you created it using a root privilege. You can own it by using chown:

sudo chown -r ashish:ashish /home/ashish/Desktop/tmp

HTH.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#2

Warning: Please don't use this way (login as root user) to works in Ubuntu or you will get serious issues...

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Sam (garg-k-ashish) said : 		#3

Hi

Ian@ where I have to apply this command on root terminal or my administrator terminal

Thanks marcobra for your kind advice but I am only the user who using root privileges so I think not so risk is there... N not using internet too on that.............

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Sam (garg-k-ashish) said : 		#4

Thanks Ian Ace, that solved my question.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#5

I always prefer to made a login with a regular user and when i need to be a real root user i always use:

sudo -i

but i never used it... ;-) and my system is working without any issue from about 5 years never reinstalled... only upgraded...