When your computer says "You don't have permission to edit this file":
Submitted 2 months ago by beep@piefed.world to [deleted]
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mp3@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Today I tried to wrestle my way with trusted installer… Went so far as to use psexec to make myself nt-authority\system and was still denied permission. ಥ_ಥ
Toes@ani.social 2 months ago
I’ve done that, did nt authority not work for you? It did for me on server 2008.
You might need to kill any processes with handles to it using process hacker.
mtpender@piefed.social 2 months ago
Linux users: “I don’t have such weaknesses.”
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 2 months 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…
pticrix@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Just do it like a champ and run
sudo chmod -R +777 /! Who needs privilege access anyway?captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah I need to go in and get access to stuff I saved on my older distros/oses somehow
AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Did you try :Z? Maybe SELinux was blocking you?
Lumisal@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Polkit asking you to type the password every few minutes when moving a bunch of files:
hansolo@lemmy.today 2 months 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
skepller@lemmy.world 2 months ago
When you learn
Ctrl+Rto reverse search you can’t go back lolBOplaid@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
You mean remove the French language pack
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Immutable Distros joined the chat
AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Well, you can technically remove the immutable flag from files… but I wouldn’t
Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
This is what made me switch to Linux
BOplaid@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Actually Linux is far more well known than for example Windows for access denied stuff. Though bypassing it is a matter of putting sudo at the beginning kf the command and putting your password in. In Windows you have to traverse through a bunch of dialogues… which isn’t that hard but not as easy as the *nix approach.
magnolia_mayhem@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Laughs in Unix
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Like an Indian movie, this file is RRR.
SirHery@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Read ride remove. Or something.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What if it’s even more R?
lemmy_get_my_coat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
*when you run Windows:
Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s what chown is for
yesman@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Mastering file permissions is a big part of becoming Linux capable. And it essential to the “everything is a file” ethos. Wanna lock down an important file or program? chmod is a powerful ally.
Microslop has tried to adopt a half-ass elevated permissions scheme, but with lame-ass UAC and users who’ve no idea why Explorer doesn’t have administrator rights on their administrator account.
Viceversa@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Windows’ way is more convenient for me, than chmod: windows allows you to regulate file access more granularly, more flexible - per any particular user , particular group. Chmod can’t.
yesman@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Either I don’t understand your comment, or you don’t understand chmod. What you describe ins’t beyond chmod; it’s the basic functionality of chmod.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
setfacl can do.
It’s just that *NIX users want the stupid POSIX model and authenticating with user-ids (private keys) instead of proper usernames +password and private keys.
Go figure /shrugLimonene@lemmy.world 2 months ago
chmod can do 95% of everything I’ve ever needed, just with the “user” and “other” category. Private files, public-readable files, public read-write files, programs I compile but anyone can run… all that is just in the “user” and “other” category of chmod.
It gets 99% if you add the sticky bit (used on /tmp) and the “group” category. Serial ports are owned by root:dialout, and mode 660. To get serial port access, just add the user to the dialout group. For group assignments in college, each partner pairing had their own group they could use. Group work files were mode 660 so groups could edit each others’ work, but other groups couldn’t peek.
For the last 1%, use setfacl. It does everything that explorer.exe’s security tab can do.
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So? How the hell is it supposed to know that when you’re trying to do things wrong? Would you rather it let any one do anything, so long as they control the mouse?
ameen272@thelemmy.club 2 months ago
Yes. Fricking yes. Do we look like we care about Windows “protecting” us? No. Nobody actually does.
UltraBlack@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Marc Uwe Kling would agree
Miller@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What it is actually saying is if you don’t know how to gain access to edit this file you should not be editing this file.
f314@lemmy.world 2 months ago
When I was a kid I deleted the
system32.dllfile on my grandfather’s computer because it showed up in some error message. It did in fact not solve the error 😅Miller@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Strictly you stopped getting that particular error message.
bequirtle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I remember trying to mod a game from the xbox app, and couldn’t edit even with trustedinstaller/takeown shenanigans. Turns out the files are encrypted so you can’t even edit it from Linux. And if you disable encryption the game doesn’t run :D
WraithGear@lemmy.world 2 months ago
that’s where the load bearing pineapple is saved