[ramberk]

The subject line says it all. I'm trying to use the fee yahoo email pop utility so that I can download my yahoo.com mail into the mail app. But I need to make a bin folder in my usr/local/ directory. Problem is that I don't have permission to do this. I get an 'insufficent permission' error message (I think thats the message). This is on my computer, I'm not logging in as a guest or anything.

Any help would be appreciated. I know nothing about unix commands. But I know how to copy and paste into the terminal app!

[travism]

Generally speaking, a regular user only has read/write access to /tmp (for temporary files) and your home directory.

With that said, you need to use sudo to temporary execute a command with super-user (ROOT) authority. Simply, say "sudo mkdir /usr/local/bin" or whatever you want. You'll be asked for your password (the one to your regular user, not ROOT). That should do the trick.