I have some friends that are trying out ROS by doing the tutorials and in the very first tutorial there is a permissions problem cause due to beginner_tutorials being shipped as a binary file now.  Because of that it is put in /opt/ros/... and normal users cannot write to those directories, and so when they are instructed to use roscreate-pkg for the first time they get a permission error, see nabble: http://ros-users.122217.n3.nabble.com/OSError-Errno-13-Permission-denied-td1459557.html#a1459588.  

So my question, if I am so inclined, is: Are the tutorials open for anyone to edit or should changes to the beginner tutorials go through some other channel like the mailing list?

Thanks,

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William Woodall
Graduate Software Engineering
Auburn University
w@auburn.edu
wjwwood@gmail.com
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