What do i have to do? I have to add a file and in gedit when i
try to save its says i am not the owner and need permissions. im
the owner. If it is not in your /home directory you are not the
owner. root is. So do sudo gedit 'file.name' You will be asked
to enter your password Now it should work You can also make
yourself the owner by getting superuser powers through sudo and
just doing it like this: sudo chown myusername file.name Every
user is in a group called "users" so you can change the file to
be owned by that group as well: sudo chgrp users file.name
Finally, if you want the file to be accessible to anyone (all
permissions on) you do: sudo chmod 777 file.name DON'T blindly
copy that line. In GNU/Linux, there are three types of
permissions: read, write and execute. Read and write are
obvious, execute means that you have the permission to run the
file, if it's a program, or open the directory, if it's a
directory. Setting this on a non-program can cause strange,
potentially dangerous, behaviour of progr