Yeah. It looks like it is a permissions issue. Usually in linux you have to use chmod for modifying. Doing ls -l should say the permissions. For example when you create a folder, you should get the following permissions by default: drwxr-xr-x So doing chmod 644 will give it drw-r--r-- permissions. If you really don't care that anyone could read and write, you could do chmod 777 on the folder