Why I can't copy files into the www folder in my root folder. It's saying access denied

Need to be able to launch a software package!

To make all command with the root, administrator, powerful user you have 2 ways:

Please open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:

gksudo nautilus

or with the cp (copy command), type man cp for the command options and usage

sudo cp sourcefiles_or_dir destination_path

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Then you can also change the file owner and/or group with the "chown" termina command or change the permissions with the "chmod" terminal command to get more help:

man chown

man chmod

Hope this help

Which software package...?

 OS commerce for Linux.

 David

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Yep, still having some difficulty. I need to copy Catalog folder from OS
Commerce for this to work. Because of the permission being set for no
access, This has been hard to get round and still working on it!

David

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Please tell us something more about the command that are you trying...

 I pasted the code that you sent to me in a Terminal, but it wasn't for
liking it! Maybe I should be pasting it into the Root Terminal?

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Please, if you want real help, please tell us the code you have pasted...

 This is the code.

 gksudo nautilus

or with the cp (copy command), type man cp for the command options and
usage

sudo cp sourcefiles_or_dir destination_path

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It sounds like there may have been a bit of confusion. If I'm just repeating things that are already clear, David, I apologize, but I'll see if I can make it a little clearer.

What Marcobra gave you is two different, possible ways of copying the files. So, just looking at the first way, the exact command to paste into the terminal is:

"gksudo nautilus"

Paste that into the window, without the quotes, and run it. It should then give ask you for your password, and then give you a nautilus window. In that window you should be able to copy the files.

Please, though, be careful, since this window is running as root. That means it has full access to all files on the system. You should only do this when you have to, because it's much easier to accidentally cause problems than normal. Most of the things in Ubuntu are restricted like this to help protect them, so it's best to be certain that you're doing what you mean to do before you do them.

I find this also with ununtu. It's incredibly infuriating, almost like being told what to do by your operating system back in windows! Is there any way to turn these restrictions on file access off completely, without having to go into the terminal everytime you want to copy a file?

Ben

Technically yes, you can set all of your files to be world readable, writable, and executable, but I frankly wouldn't feel comfortable giving that kind of advice. There are *very* important reasons why these permissions are there. Believe me, I can understand your annoyance with them, but it's an essential part of basic security on your system. I can't stress enough how important they are.

There is a workaround, though. You could just make a link to your home directory from the place you're trying to put files. For instance, if you're trying to put files in /var/www/html/ you could make the "html" directory a link to a "html" in your home directory. Then you'd just use the latter (/home/username/html for instance).

Does this sound like a reasonable compromise that'd still let you do what you need to do?

Thankyou for your advice. I see your point about security, but I still think there should be a way for the user to decide on the level of security they need without being dictated to.
The problem I was having at the time I posted last was merely trying to put some pictures in the /usr/share/wallpapers/ folder. Very frustrating at the time but I realised running the file manager in sudo from the terminal ('sudo thunar') would allow me to copy as many files as I like in that particular session. I was happy enough with this method once I'd found it but I'd still prefer a method to give me complete access without having to go through this procedure. Before I moved to ubuntu I was running linux puppy which uses an 'insecure' system as root (i.e. I could modify anything without going into super user) and found it was very usefull while learning the basics of linux. Surely the linux ideology would suggest giving the user an easy choice to turn off security measures couldn't be a bad idea?

Ben

Thanks Mike Ward, that solved my question.

Mike-
 I'm trying to work in my var/www folder and unable to access it. I just need to move some files into it to see how they work...
I'm new to doing this on a linux platform (running 7.10)
Any suggestions? I tried giving root a password but I get the error that I can't login as root...I'm stuck .

I've the same problem as DocHobbes.... HELP