I recently installed gentoo and everything has been going fine, however pretty much all of the files and folders have been set to read-only for normal users. if I want to use something like jedit or open office, I am unable to save anything to disk, and an error saying I don't have the correct permissions pops up when I do try to save something. I can't create files or folders through Konqueror either. This is highly impractical so I decided to try and sort it out and started messing around with chmod; permissions. Up until this point I have been su-ing to root and creating and editing files and folders via the terminal but I have never been able to write to a file or folder using a gui of any sort.
I don't know what I did but after messing around with file/folder permissions I am unable to su to root via the terminal and get the following error:
If I change to a console login and try to login as root the system seems to think that I have entered the wrong password and requests a login name again. I've done a lot of reading which has led me to look at /etc/passwd, groups and shadow but I can't sort the problem out. Google hasn't been that much help, probably because I don't exactly know whats wrong. I know its probably a permissions thing but I am not sure which files/folders it applies to. In short how might this be sorted?Code:$ su password: < enters correct password > setgid: Operation not permitted $


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. Up until this point I have been su-ing to root and creating and editing files and folders via the terminal but I have never been able to write to a file or folder using a gui of any sort.
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. Thanks for giving me that info, it is what I have been looking for because I thought there was an issue with those files.
. What should the permissions for /etc/shadow look like by the way? 
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