I'm a newbie in the GNU/Linux-Ubuntu world. I have a problem copying files to a directory on Ubuntu 12.04. I create a directory in the home directory so that the path where I want to copy to is: /home/sixven/camp_sms/inputsBut when ini run the following command in the terminal to create a sample file as follows:francisco-vergara@Francisco-Vergara:/home/sixven/camp_sms/inputs$ touch test_file.txttouch: can not make `touch' on test_file.txt: permission deniedI can not copy files directly in that directory. How can I assign permissions with the chown & chmod commands to copy the files?I do not know which user and group to use.
Create file in folder: permission denied
chmod;chown
First of all you have to know that the default permission of directories in Ubuntu is 644 which means you can't create a file in a directory you are not the owner.you are trying as user:francisco-vergara to create a file in a directory /home/sixven/camp_sms/inputs which is owned by user:sixven.So how to solve this:You can either change the permission of the directory and enable others to create files inside.sudo chmod -R 777 /home/sixven/camp_sms/inputsThis command will change the permission of the directory recursively and enable all other users to create/modify and delete files and directories inside.You can change the owner ship of this directory and make user:francisco-vergara as the ownersudo chown -R francisco-vergara:francisco-vergara /home/sixven/camp_sms/inputsBut like this the user:sixven can't write in this folder again and thus you  may moving in a circular infinite loop.So i advise you to use Option 1.Or if this directory will be accessed by both users you can do the following trick:change ownership of the directory to user:francisco-vergara and keep the group owner group:sixven.sudo chown -R francisco-vergara /home/sixven/camp_sms/inputsLike that both users can still use the directory.But as I said you before It's easiest and more efficient to use option 1.