Password problem when using chown in Mint.

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Password problem when using chown in Mint.

#1 Post by fixit »

I still am using Puppy.

I am trying out Mint.

Response from the forum have been sparse.

I tried this command so their File Manager would let me view all directories and partitions.

chown -R fixit /root

Is there a way to be prompted only once for my password during one session ?

It gets kinda old typing in my password for every file I want to delete etc.
:-)

Thanks gentlemen,
Andy

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#2 Post by 8-bit »

Have you tried sudo root to identify yourself as root?
chown normally is used to change ownership attribute of a file.

fixit

#3 Post by fixit »

I found a Konsole as root app and was able to take ownership of all files.

Andy

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