I'm new to all this (ie. Linux :"] ), and when I tried switching to root via 'su' it wouldn't accept my pasword.

So instead I put 'sudo' in front of the 'chown' command. This will prompt you for your password before it runs the command (you have to 'sudo' every time you want to run as root).

Hopefully this will help fellow Linux n00bs like me :D

Back to the point of my post, why can't I use 'su'?