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Getting permission to open a file in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Asked by Not Telling

I have a file located in my hard drive at '/var/crash/_usr_sbin_pptp.0.crash'. When I try to open this file in Text Editor I get a message telling me I don't have permission to open the file. How can I get permission?

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

1. Crash files are not meant for opening in an editor; they contain binary contents that will not be shown in a reasonable way in an editor.
2. You can use the sudo command prefix to temporarily gain administrative authorizations.

What is the output of the commands

ls -l /var/crash/_usr_sbin_pptp.0.crash
file /var/crash/_usr_sbin_pptp.0.crash
sudo file /var/crash/_usr_sbin_pptp.0.crash

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Not Telling (c4529218) said : 		#2

Thanks friend, but I am going to switch over to using a protocol called OpenVPN. VPN's using PPTP disconnects when using BitTorrent.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#3

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