Trying to learn to edit files but nano wont save because I am not in sudoers file

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I attempted to follow the instructions to edit files in nano. If i just type nano notes.txt it won’t let me save the file (permission denied) , if I type in sudo nano notes.txt its asking for a password , but the HTB-student password wont give me sudo privileges?

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Never mind. I used touch to create the file notes.txt, then I went into nano and it worked just fine. Is this the normal way an unprivileged user would do this or is there another way?

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its normal, just dont use sudo, if not in sudoers. nano filename.extension

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I tried that first but I only got “permission denied”

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maybe you don’t have write permission in that particular folder, try writing to /tmp

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I believe I am in the same exercise - I go to use the ^W function and it closes the window. This is all new to me so I’m just wondering if I am doing something wrong.

Also, it won’t write the file to the machine. Am I in the wrong place/directory?!?

TIA