I am new user of Ubuntu. I have installed Ubuntu version 12.10 in virtual box.

The problem.

I downloaded a file called pcre in to /home/downloads.

I created a folder in pcre in home folder and moved the pcre file from download folder to pcre folder

I then copied the folder /home/dinesh/pcre to /usr/local/src/snort/snorttmp using the command

cp -a /home/dinesh/pcre  /usr/local/src/snort/snorttmp

When I am trying to access snorttmp folder, a message is displayed

" The folder contents could not be displayed. You do not have the
permissions necessary to view the contents of "snorttmp".

Before copying pcre file into the snorttmp, I had access to snorttmp and was able to view the files present in snorttmp folder.

I then tried to see my files through the terminal

root@dinesh-VirtualBox: /usr/local/src/snort/snorttmp# ls -l



-rw-r--r--  1   root    root    5189146 Jan 24 00:18  2787                    

-rw-r--r--  1   root    root    19659   Jan 28 16:29  index.html           

drwxrwxr-x  2   dinesh  dinesh     4096 Jan 28 20:18  pcre          

drwxr-xr-x  10  root    root       4096 Jan 1  00:08  snort-2.9.6.0          

drwxrwxr-x  6   dinesh  dinesh     4096 Jan 28 20:20  SnortRules        

drwxr-xr-x  2   root    root       4096 Jan 28 16:18  snorttmp

I find few of the files are marked in blue while the other files are displayed in white.

The files that were displayed in blue when I did ls -l are

pcre

snort-2.9.6.0

SnortRules

snorttmp

2787 and index.html are displayed in white.

Kindly let me know what should be done to get permission to view my files.

Thanks,