On Sunday, March 28, 2004, at 09:50 PM, Darren wrote:
Brian Futrell wrote:I don't have a root account either. There is two user account on this G3 AIO: the default has admin capabilities, and the other one is a test account to see what can be done with a standard account. I do have some other programs not normally installed by most OS X users, like Complete MySQL, Complete PHP, and Complete Apache2. Other than those and MacJanitor, there isn't too much software on this Mac.
Thanks for the reply.
I dont understand it then, Gretchen gets a standard error message when trying to edit a file in /etc. File not found is pretty standard when a user lacking permission tries to access a root owned system file. (/etc is root owned in linux and unix, maybe admin owned in X?)
She gets the message when trying to save the file. She can open the file and edit it ok, but the error appears when the file name appears to save the file to.
I tried editing the file without running sudo, and I got the message 'can not open the file for writing'. I've also tried it with sudo to allow access to the file, and it saves properly then.
Going by what you wrote above, you must have tried editing from the standard account which somehow allowed you to read but would have to sudo to save - odd. If you where in the admin account you should be able to read and I'd imagine write, if sudo was needed it would mean you have a root account. Root being the only thing you could sudo to?
I actually edited with the admin account. I don't use the test account much. Sudo was required before pico in order to save the file.
Simply looking at the permissions for the folders /etc, /etc/cups and /etc/cups/mime.types and /etc/cups/mime.convs and the checking that the admin has the needed group permission would answer this otherwise sudo is using root access thats not enabled on your mac?
Is it possible you have changed the admins account and added groups at some stage earlier.
Like I said, I dont have a copy here and this is a mix of linux and google.
The command is: sudo pico mime.types Just incase Gretchen forgot the sudo bit before writing this
I did this to get it to save the changes (adding/removing a space) when trying to determine what Gretchen was seeing when editing the file.
And, I did type pico mime.types without the period. That was a typo in the email itself.
sudo allows for admin/root access for one task only. Do you not have a su command to run a session with these permissions?
Sudo allows access for something like 5 to 15 minutes on X (the exact amount of time eludes me).
A nix headache coming on. So does 10.3.3 work any better than 10.3?
Haven't a clue - I don't have a Mac capable of officially running 10.3, and both of my Jaguar Macs are running at 300mhz or slower.
Brian
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