mkdir: permission denied help

[dmster^]

Hello everyone, scrub here,
I'm having issues regarding permissions when I try to create a directory from /home.

user@ubuntu:/home$ mkdir playground
mkdir: cannot create directory 'playground': Permission denied

I've changed my user settings to admin and i still can't create a directory, I would really appreciate it if i can get some info on how I could resolve this problem.
Thanks.

[Hedgehog1]

Unless you are in your home direrctory:

mkdir /home/hedgehog/newplace

you will need to create the direcroty using 'sudo':

sudo mkdir /home/newplace

The Hedge

[Rocket2DMn]

This question is best responded to by asking you a question - why would you want to create a directory directly in /home? This is for user's home directories. If you want to make a folder for yourself to access, you should create it in your own personal home directory, e.g. in "/home/dmster".

cd ~
mkdir playground

Now you have "/home/dmster/playground".

[dcsoldschool53]

Hello everyone, scrub here,
I'm having issues regarding permissions when I try to create a directory from /home.

user@ubuntu:/home$ mkdir playground
mkdir: cannot create directory 'playground': Permission denied

I've changed my user settings to admin and i still can't create a directory, I would really appreciate it if i can get some info on how I could resolve this problem.
Thanks.

If I understand you correctly, you were trying to create a folder in the /home directory not /home/user-name directory. try

cd /home/your-user-name && mkdir playground

see if that works.

[dmster^]

Thank you.
I was following The Linux Command Line by Shotts and it didn't specify that i couldn't make it directly in /home.
but /home/me/playground worked.