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Old 04-22-2008
Newbie, Directories permissions

Basicly im trying to edit a file for apache2 in /var/etc/apache2 and i dont have permissions, my login name is associated with root but i still can't do anything, Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance!
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Old 04-22-2008
Sorry i also for forgot in using ubuntu 7.10
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Old 04-22-2008
Use the sudo command to get elevated privileges.

If you want to use a graphical editor, something like sudo gedit /var/etc/apache2/fnord.conf
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Old 04-22-2008
era, that was perfect, thank you very much Smilie works great

For anyone reading this post regarding the same thing make sure you dont control C out of the terminal until after you have saved the file you are editing Smilie
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