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Fix Save for Web permissions error in Adobe Illustrator
Authored by: zacht on Jul 15, '03 12:01:02PM

You should not need to enable root user. One possible change to the hint is as follows:

1., 2. as before
3. Enter this command line: sudo su -
4. enter YOUR OWN password
5. etc. as before

This is what I do whenever I want to be root for a while in the Terminal. I don't have root login enabled but this allows me to "root around", ha ha. Still, sudo almost always works fine, so...

... An even better change to the hint is to skip steps 3. and 4., and stick a "sudo" in front of the command in 6. There's no need to be root when you cd or ls (or grep). You still have to be a user who's allowed to use sudo, which (I think) means an Administrator (not a limited user).

Anyway, the real hint here is changing the permissions on Illustrator, not how you do it. Just thought I'd offer a minor shortcut or two.

BTW, if you do enable root user for this hint, probably want to disable it afterwards.

And is it just me, or is having write permission on an application kind of weird?

zach



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