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2011-10-06 , 03:34
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Originally Posted by slai View Post


Why?

I ls -al and see root all over. i try whoami and get "user". i try the mv thing and permission denied. wtf is going on here.
The 'root' in the ls output means that root owns the file, not that you are root. 'whoami' is correctly telling you that you are logged in as user. You must become root to mess with files owned by root (e.g. to create a file in /etc/apt).

As you are not already aware of this, I wish you luck in modifying these files without screwing up your device on some way. You're gonna need it
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