Hi Marcel,
It would be best to use 'galaxy' user to add any tools. To do so, after you've logged in as ubuntu user, simply execute: 
sudo su galaxy
and you will become galaxy user. You can then make the desired modifications.

Good luck,
Enis

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Greg Von Kuster <greg@bx.psu.edu> wrote:
Hello Marcel,

In the future, please send all questions like this to the galaxy-dev mailing list, as doing so will streamline the process of getting a timely answer.  I believe Enis is best able to answer your questions.

Thanks!


On Nov 30, 2011, at 9:29 AM, Marcel Schumann wrote:

> Hi Greg,
>
> I'm currently trying to create a GalaxyCloudman version that includes CADDSuite.
> Thus, I launched GalaxyCloudman as described in your wiki and tried to modify it afterwards.
>
> Well, starting cloudman worked without any problems... so far, so good :-)
> As described on
>       http://wiki.g2.bx.psu.edu/Admin/Cloud/Customize%20Galaxy%20Cloud
> I could then log-in via ssh as user 'ubuntu' (not as user 'galaxy').
> However, all files of the galaxy installation belong to user and group 'galaxy'.
>
> Thus my question: How should users be able to customize cloudman? Is there some trick by which I can log-in as 'galaxy' or do you have any other idea how to make this work ? ;-)
>
> Sorry Greg, if you are not the correct contact in this case, but I found not specific contact or mailing list for cloudman. Perhaps, you could just forward this mail in that case ...
>
>
> Cheers,
> Marcel
>
>
> --
> Marcel Schumann
>
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> Wilhelm Schickard Institute for Computer Science
> Division for Applied Bioinformatics
> Room C313, Sand 14, D-72076 Tuebingen
>
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Greg Von Kuster
Galaxy Development Team
greg@bx.psu.edu