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