[Xastir] Loading Maps on Xubuntu - Xastir-Hardy_090307

[Nick]

I appreciate the extremely fast response, but I am not quite that technical.

My understanding is there is no way to turn off that permission within 
the GUI.  Is there a way within the shell?  I have 19GB of maps to copy 
into the map folder, doing it one file at a time, would onerous.   I am 
trying to find the simplest way to do it.

Thanks,

Nick



Tom Russo wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 08:55:39PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <nwsnowboarder at verizon.net> flavor, containing:
>   
>> I am attempting to install the maps for Washington and Oregon in Xubuntu 
>> and I can't copy them into the map folder because the permissions are 
>> not correct to allow read/write access.
>>
>> The owner is root
>>
>> Anyone know the password? Yea I tried root
>>     
>
> Login to the root account is typically disabled on ubuntu systems.  All
> the stuff you'd do by "su root" or logging in as root is instead done with
> "sudo" (e.g. "sudo cp file1.shp /usr/local/share/xastir/maps/junk/").
>
> The Xastir-Hardy virtual machine is set up that way, with the "xubuntu" user
> as one of the allowed "sudoers."
>
> Sudo prompts you for a password.  The password is the one for the xubuntu 
> account.
>
> See "man sudo" for details.
>
>