Tell me more ×  How can you use Git without Sudo in multiple
accounts in one Ubuntu?  My Ubuntu has many accounts. The
creation of new accounts has made Git inaccessible by me without
sudo.  I changed the owner to be me, masi, and the group to be
admin where the masi belongs to. I have the following
permissions for Git  800 -rwxrwxrwx 1 masi admin 813744
2009-02-20 23:01 /usr/bin/git  I get the following message in
trying to use Git  git status fatal: unable to create
'.git/index.lock': Permission denied  I run find . -iregex
".*index.l.* which returns no matches so there seems to be no
index.lock in locking the system. I run the same command also
with sudo unsuccessfully.  share|improve this question "The
creation of new accounts has made Git inaccessible by me without
sudo." You should take this as a sign that something is wrong
with either your account, your system configuration, or your
installation. That is extremely abnormal behaviour -- git is a
normal userspace application, accessible by all ordinary