On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> I am impressed by the security settings for Mandrake which seem to hide
> and disallow certain read functions.. but I wish to make backups of my
> server and I am not allowed direct copy of certain directories to my
> remote computer.
>
> How do I give myself rights (even if only temporarily) to copy, through
> ftp, all the files I want to copy for a backup on a different computer?
>
su to root *should* do that. If not even "root" can do it,
then security is TOO tight. You MAY have to actually log in
as root rather than using "su" to get root access.
John
