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VI won't let me save my vimrc file

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I have changed the permissions to allow for:

-rwxrwxr-- 1 root root 2214 Oct  4 09:45 vimrc

and it still won't let me save to the file. I only have one user on this box and it has admin rights. Everytime I make changes to the file and try and save it tells me I'm trying to make changes to a read only file and to hit ! to override. When I do that and hit !ZZ it still doesn't save.

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answered 1 Year ago impisaso · Accepted Answer

-rwxrwxr-- 1 root root means the file belongs to the root user and that only him and users from the group 'root' may write to it.

You can use your sudo powers and run sudo vim vimrc or you could change the owner with sudo chown <insert-your-username-here> vimrc and then edit it with vim vimrc