Help with Permissions

[coyboss]

Hi there,

I am trying to change permissions on a directory and it keeps telling me I dont' have permission to do it.

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[Student@localhost ~]$ sudo chmod ug+rwx ~/MyFiles/Ike
[sudo] password for Student:
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/Student/MyFiles/Ike': Permission denied
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Any help would be greatly appreciated.

IKE

[jayd512]

Hello again!

You're not giving the full path name when issuing the command.

$ sudo chmod ug+rwx ~/MyFiles/Ike

Should be

$ sudo chmod ug+rwx ~/Student/MyFiles/Ike

I see that because of the error message: chmod: changing permissions of `/home/Student/MyFiles/Ike': Permission denied

[coyboss]

Hi JAy,

Yeah I think I figured it out, part of the issue was our teacher had given us erroneous instructions.

I had to create the Ike directory under the Home directory and then it gave me permission to do it.

I had tried using the whole path /home/Student/MyFiles/Ike but it still gave me the permission denied error.

Now I need to figure out how to move my files from the erroneously created Ike directory under MyFiles to the one under Home

Any suggestions?

I have tried to use the mv and cp command but to no avail it said the file didn't exist
Here is what I tried:

 mv /home/Student/MyFiles/Myfile1.txt /home/Ike/Myfile1/txt

and

 cp /home/Student/MyFiles/Myfile1.txt /home/Ike/Myfile1/txt

thanks for the help

IKE

[coyboss]

OK Well it seems like I have gotten this taken care of
It must have been something to do with the virtual server last night. I used the same commands as above and it worked this time.

Who knows.

Thanks for the help Jay

IKE