Comment on When your computer says "You don't have permission to edit this file":

mtpender@piefed.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “You fool, I could sudo rm the whole drive right now. It’s only out of my exuberant benevolence that I don’t.”

  Later: me pressing the up key 38 times rather than type sudo apt update && upgrade

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• Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I wish. I spent 4 hours trying to get both I and docker to have permission to see my other drive. I finally gave up entirely and made a puid:guid that had access to everything short of root and put myself on that. It’s still dubious as to whether that will work…

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  • pticrix@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Just do it like a champ and run sudo chmod -R +777 / ! Who needs privilege access anyway?

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  • AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Did you try :Z? Maybe SELinux was blocking you?

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah I need to go in and get access to stuff I saved on my older distros/oses somehow

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• Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Immutable Distros joined the chat

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  • AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well, you can technically remove the immutable flag from files… but I wouldn’t

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    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Well, you can technically boot Windows into safemode or boot the install iso to modify the files owned by TrustedInstaller. But should you really do it?

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      • AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        I also wouldn’t, just like I wouldn’t touch the immutable flag

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• Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Polkit asking you to type the password every few minutes when moving a bunch of files:

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