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User and user group file permissions

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tenmiles

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Sep 27, 2010
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I have a config file, /etc/my.cnf that has permissions set via the finder gui to have read/write for anyone that's an "admin". My user is an admin (turns out I'm the only user as well), but when I open this file (it's plain text) in text edit it gives me an error on save saying that I don't have permissions for the folder that it's in. I can, however, use nano via the terminal and modify the file without any issues.

I don't want to set read/write permissions on /etc to everyone, so how do I make it so TextEdit (and thus other programs having the same problem) can write to that file?
 
tenmiles said:
I have a config file, /etc/my.cnf that has permissions set via the finder gui to have read/write for anyone that's an "admin". My user is an admin (turns out I'm the only user as well), but when I open this file (it's plain text) in text edit it gives me an error on save saying that I don't have permissions for the folder that it's in. I can, however, use nano via the terminal and modify the file without any issues.

I don't want to set read/write permissions on /etc to everyone, so how do I make it so TextEdit (and thus other programs having the same problem) can write to that file?
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How about entering this in Terminal:

Code: 
sudo open -e /etc/my.cnf
 
Looking into it more Text Edit tries to auto save which is what it was complaining about with the directory because it wants to create a new file that is the backup which is something that my other program does as well.
 
tenmiles said:
Looking into it more Text Edit tries to auto save which is what it was complaining about with the directory because it wants to create a new file that is the backup which is something that my other program does as well.
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Is there a reason why this config file needs to be in /etc? This seems like a bad location.
 
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