Hi Aneisha,

When you say you cannot alter config/galaxy.ini, what do you mean? You should be able to create (if not there) and edit this file in your regular terminal on that machine.

Does a different user own the file, perhaps a 'galaxy' one? If so, you could change to that user and then edit.

On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 5:13 PM Davenport, Aneisha <ADAVENP3@gru.edu> wrote:

Hi, I work at the It service desk at the GRU Health and Science campus Ed Commons GB building and I have a customer trying to get admin access for the local installation of galaxy. We tried to follow the online instructions "In order to control your new Galaxy through the UI (installing tools, managing users, creating groups etc.) you have to become an administrator. First register as a new user and then give the user admin privileges like this: You add the Galaxy login ( email ) to the Galaxy configuration file (config/galaxy.ini). If the file does not exist you can copy it from the provided sample (config/galaxy.ini.sample). Note that you have to restart Galaxy after modifying the configuration for changes to take effect.

# this should be a comma-separated list of valid Galaxy users
admin_users = user1@example.com,user2@example.com" but we cannot alter the config/galaxy.ini file. Can you please give us assistance? Do you run in console or Terminal (this is a Macbook Air Laptop)?

Aneisha Davenport
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