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Access Denied on creating symbolic links

Asked by Stephen Weber

I installed Ubuntu on a stand alone PC and the only operating system. This is a non production unit for testing. I am very new to UBUNTU and was assigned this task by my supervisor. I am attempting to create symbolic links to script files and keep receiving access denied messages. I have experience this access denied while making other configuration changes. I check my user settings and I am setup as an administrator.

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Steve

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Stephen Weber (i1fo) said : 		#1

I found the "Sudo -I" command which appears to put me in an elevated security state. after running this command I notice my prompt changes from $ to # and now the configuration commands work. Is this the right way to go about this?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

What command are you running and what is the pwd when you run it. What are the file systems you are linking from and to?

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samuel (samuel-h) said : 		#3

Access is denied means you don't have read/write privalges to the directories you are creating the links in. sudo -I is indeed one way to do things, or you can add sudo to the beggining of each individual command. EG: sudo ln -ls /test.sh /dir/test-link.sh

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