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How to Set all Permissions

Asked by Arthur

I would like to get rid of the Permission requests that crop up, is there a way to set the OS with permission to do everything, in all programs and drives.
10.04 Ubuntu

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Federico Tello Gentile (federicotg) said : 		#1

Use sudo.

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Arthur (adolphsn) said : 		#2

Need more info, I'm not familiar with many commands, checking the manual, is somewhat confusing.
Sudo?? will that remember the permission change, or do I need to do it each time I start the computer?

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Federico Tello Gentile (federicotg) said : 		#3

Tell us what you want to to and why you think permissions are blocking you from doing it, and we will try to help you.
Going against the whole permissions system in Linux is something nobody has ever done.

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Arthur (adolphsn) said : 		#4

I would like to give 'me' permissions on all aspects of the OS
The last one that stopped me was the email backup settings, there always seems to be the permissions jumping in the way
Is there a program to help the helpless set permissions, I have searched and can't find but one (Automatic administration of Sudo). sounds like I may get in trouble with that.

I have done : sudo -s not sure what it is doing for me, but it ends when closing the terminal window.

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

then use gksudo in an ALT+F2 dialogue. The app dies when you close the terminal as te processes are children of the terminal, if the terminal dies then children die too.

You have full access to the OS if you are a member of admin. It give you access to gksudo and sudo which give elevated access for the one command and make the system more secure.

Use sudo -i instead of sudo -s -s uses the users home rather than roots and can damage ownerships of your users data and can make logon fail.

You will not be able to backup data which is currently in us. If your email client is RUNNING then this will lock the data and make backups fail.This is exactly the same in Windows and Mac so make sure you close the applications relating to the data before you execute the backup. Otherwise your user will have full access to its own data and the backup will be fine.

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Arthur (adolphsn) said : 		#6

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.