Thunderbird Extensions In Ubuntu / Folder Permissions. Help

[tickmike]

Had a good look on Thunderbird site and found the web mail extensions and I have downloaded the extensions but need to change the folder permissions as it will not let me make changes.

How do I change folder permissions with Terminal ?
Is it sudo chmod/monzila/permissions

???? Help.

I'm still on my steep part of my learning curve but I am very impressed with Linux.

Michael.

[CyberNerd]

 sudo chmod u+rwx /home/username/.mozilla -R

explanation:

sudo - temporarily become root
chmod - command to change permissions
u+rwx - u = user += add rwx = read write execute
in the same way g-wr removes the 'group' read and write permission and o+r adds read permission to the 'other' (everbody) group
/home/username/.mozilla - the path to the directory you want to change permission
-R - do this recursively through all directories

It's also possible to have extended file attributes...

[CyberNerd]

.. also worth mentioning chown - change ownership:

 sudo chown username:usergroup /home/username/path -R

will change ownership and ownergroup recursively

edit:

and check the permissions with

 ls -l

to show long listings

-rw-r--r-- 1 Cybernerd users   100703 2007-01-11 20:09 snowman.jpg

[tickmike]

Hi CyberNerd , Thanks for reply. It did not work. !.
Tried
sudo chmod u+rwx /home/username/.mozilla -R

It said sudo u+rwx command not found.

Also forgot there are two folders one monzilla-firefox and monzilla-thunderbird.
looking with 'nautilus' they are in /usr/lib

Can you get root permissions to use Nautilus if you can then you can see what your doing by right clicking a folder , permissions, change settings. ?

Michael. ps Its on a spare test desktop machine.

[CyberNerd]

yes, run nautilus from the shell using sudo.

 sudo nautilus

but be careful

[tickmike]

That did the trick