linux

Permissions have to be given by a user that can change permissions on files or folder, or who can change group memberships.

Te commands to change permissions on files or folders are chmod and chown.

Chown changes the ownership of a file. The command `chown user1 example` changes the owner of the file 'example' to user1, and the group to user1's default group. The command `chown user1:wheel example` does the same to the ownership, but the group is set to wheel.

Chmod changes the permission bits of a file. Every file has 3 permission switches for 3 groups: u (user owner), g (group owner) and o (others), can independently allowed r (read access), w (write access) and/or x (execute access). The command chmod requires the parameters either in a form that specifies the user and the permissions or permission changes (like u+x, o-rwx) or as an octal number that is a bitfiels of the permission bits with the values r=4, w=2 and x=1 (ie. rwx = 4+2+1 => 7, chmod needs one digit for each group, eg. 644). The command `chmod u+rw example` would allow the user owner (the one you set with the chown command) read and write access. The command `chmod go-x example` would disallow execution of the file example by any group members of the owning group, as well as anyone else. The execute permission of the user owner is untouched. The command `chmod 755 example`would give the user owner read, write and execute permissions, the group owner and everyone else only read and execute.

Depending on your filesystem, your linux might offer other ways of setting permissions. There might be tools that set ACLs. Common unix tools are the ones I described. Please also consult the man pages (type `man chmod` and `man chown`).

HTH

You need to change permissions on the target folder.  You need to have write and execute permissions on the target folder (where you would like the files to be copied).

first see who owns it.

ls -ld /path/to/folder


Then you can change ownership by
chown user:group folder

Change the permissions
chmod 777 target_folder

ok thanks , I wanna change a system file permissions

chmod 777 usr/share/java :   it appears me that the file does not exist

Try:

chmod 777 /usr/share/java

thanks