How to copy the permission of root to current user?
Copying things as root will make things become owned by root (gksudo I think is just to stop program settings etc becoming owned by root - see here) - you should be able to fix it using the following :
sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /<PATH>/<TO>/<COPIED>/<FOLDER>
It:
- Uses chown
-
-R
recursively modifies directories and files -
$USER
is replaced with your username by the shell (command line, bash etc), so it tells it to make the files' and folders' user and group IDs your user's. - Carries it out on the specified path - e.g.
/<PATH>/<TO>/<COPIED>/<FOLDER>
. Do not do it on just/
,/usr
etc, as it probably will break the system.
For example:
$ touch file
$ sudo cp file filert
$ ls -l | grep file
-rw-rw-r--. 1 wilf wilf 0 Jul 2 09:42 file
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Jul 2 09:43 filert
The above commands. create a file called file
, copy it as root to filert
, then displays the file properties. When files are copied as root, the resulting file should be owned by root - this is what happened to your files. With the above example, filert
can be made usable by a normal user using:
$ sudo chown $USER:$USER filert
$ ls -l | grep file
-rw-rw-r--. 1 wilf wilf 0 Jul 2 09:42 file
-rw-r--r--. 1 wilf wilf 0 Jul 2 09:43 filert