Access denied when trying to download a file while not root

[Ryuuhi]

When I try to download a file and I'm not logged in as root, I get an error saying "access denied". I'm logged in as "matthew", and I tried to download to /home/matthew/dls. How can I fix this so that I have read/write permission?

[Sykotik]

Okay, the directory should belong to matthew (and belong to whichever group your primary group is [usually matthew or users]), and then you should have rwx permissions on the directory for that user and group.

chown matthew:matthew /home/matthew/dls
chmod ug+rwx /home/matthew/dls

Er... this should work, I think. Please yell at me if I'm wrong :P

[Dolda2000]

Why would he want to have 770 on it? use this instead:

chown matthew: /home/matthew/dls
chmod 755 /home/matthew/dls

Omitting the group name but specifying the colon to chown changes the group to matthew's primare login group, which is probably what you want. chmod 755 also matches your standard umask, so use that instead.