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I'm trying reveal.js for the first time and just cloned and installed the full setup. I opened the slide presentation on the local host and played around for few seconds. So far so good. Afterwards I closed the presentation and went for editing the index.html file but when I tried to save I got the message I didn't have the permission to edit. Then I checked: 

[reveal.js (master)]$ ls -lg ~/.../reveal.js/index.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 1479 mag  5 10:15 ~/.../reveal.js/index.html

So I went for changing the permissions using find as suggested here. That gives:

[reveal.js (master)]$ sudo find ~/.../reveal.js -type f -exec chmod 755 {} \;

Checked again: 

[reveal.js (master)]$ ls -lg ~/.../reveal.js/index.html
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 1479 mag  5 10:15 ~/.../reveal.js/index.html

Thought everything was fine but when I tried to edit again and still I don't have the permissions.

Anyone has a clue on that?

Edit: tried also the recursive version of the find command

[reveal.js (master)]$ sudo find ~/.../reveal.js -type f -exec chmod 755 -R {} \;
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Solved with the simplest command as possible: 

sudo chmod -R ugo+rw

Shame.

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    You just gave **everyone** on the system write access to your files and directories. That's a **horrible** idea. – Etan Reisner May 05 '16 at 18:01
  • Why? This is my personal computer. Do I have any reason to worry about that I can't see? – pedrez May 05 '16 at 18:41
  • Because it is bad practice and you shouldn't do it and because even on a single-user machine there are processes running under different accounts for a reason. You don't want to expose things to rogue processes that don't need to see/edit things. It also just isn't a valid solution to **anything**. – Etan Reisner May 05 '16 at 18:47
  • Ok, thanks for the insight. Could you please give me a suggestion to solve the problem differently? – pedrez May 05 '16 at 19:02
  • What does `ls -l` on the file(s) output? What user are you trying this as? Running `sudo chmod -R o-w` would be a **tremendous** improvement by itself. – Etan Reisner May 05 '16 at 20:27