Re: Setting permissions

[Aswin Venkat <venkat@bevo.che.wisc.edu>]

 > Based on this, I'd say nothing's wrong and I can't see why you're
 > having a problem.  Perhaps we should back up and you should describe
 > the problems more explicitly.
 > 
 > When you try to back up your programs as "anv", what happens?  What
 > are the commands you're using and what are the error messages?  When
 > you're doing something else as anv that you've found you have to
 > resort to sudo to get it done, what are the real errors as anv?
 > 

One problem that i've been noticing is that i cannot get emacs
to auto backup unless i open the emacs session in sudo mode. If i open
a file with emacs then the system warns me that it cannot write the
backup file. Now if i open the file running sudo emacs rather than
just emacs, then the auto backup runs fine. That seems a little odd to
me because me as the user should have those permissions and not have
to run sudo.

Most other operations run as they should i.e. without requiring me to
invoke sudo. I have no clue why this is happening. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Aswin