Re: [expert] Fwd: arrrgghhh
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 08:08 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 2:45 pm, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 12:53, Anne Wilson wrote: I am using Gnome as my desktop. The program says I do not own it, so I found file manager super user mode..It did not ask me for my root password, snip James, I'm puzzled why FileManager SUMode didn't ask for the root password. Would this happen if he hadn't created any users? Could that be the real problem? It's trying to know what to ask him that's my problem. Anne Anne, File Manager Super User Mode doesn't ask and DOESN'T put you into su mode in Gnome, though it does both in KDE, at least on my 9.1 installation. Dunno why. It's not a question of having logged in as root. I've made a note of this in one of the TWiki entries somewhere. DougB That's incredible! There isn't much point in it, in that case. I wonder if he would be prepared to stick to kde until he has things up and running and explore other dms later. I'll suggest it to him. hahah yup. I have another one for you. Make a super duper encrypted file system with a minimum of 16 characters. So when it is booted or mounted it requires a password. (naturally) Now, open the control center and go into mount points and mount the d#@ thing. No password! I was pretty much blown away by that, but I guess they figure if you are root, you should be able to mount anything. Kind of defeats the whole purpose in my mind. :) Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Fwd: arrrgghhh
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 06:01 pm, many eyes noted that Anne Wilson wrote: A newbie has contacted me for help. So far he has not managed to get himself onto the mailing lists, so I'm all he has got for now. I'm puzzled about his current problem. Obviously a permissions problem, but I don't know what questions to ask. Help, anyone? Anne -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: arrrgghhh Date: Monday 22 Sep 2003 9:25 pm From: philip [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am using Gnome as my desktop. The program says I do not own it, so I found file manager super user mode..It did not ask me for my root password, and I can find nothing in the directory about gtcam or ownership, it dose however open my home folder. Any tips. I will be here a while longer hours I think. Its ok my wife is out lol. so no worries about divorce lol. --- Anne, This might be off the mark, never having used gnome, but I wonder what error messages Philip gets? In /tmp there will be some files that work gnome just as they work KDE. They should belong to user, and you can either chmod them or you can chown them. Having had trouble like this in Slackware that didn't allow me to log into the desktop and X as user. but roots were owned correctly. I discovered the best was was to chown them and they stayed chowned. The permissions were changed on each login with chmod, and had to be either rechmod or deleted, every time. That was Slackware though. Mandrake might get it right if deleted as root and then enter as user so that they can be rewritten. They may stick after reboot also? HTH Charlie. -- Tomorrow I will live, the fool does say: Today itself's too late; the wise lived yesterday. Martial This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.1, Kmail v1.5 and OpenOffice.org1Beta Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Fwd: arrrgghhh
A newbie has contacted me for help. So far he has not managed to get himself onto the mailing lists, so I'm all he has got for now. I'm puzzled about his current problem. Obviously a permissions problem, but I don't know what questions to ask. Help, anyone? Anne -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: arrrgghhh Date: Monday 22 Sep 2003 9:25 pm From: philip [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am using Gnome as my desktop. The program says I do not own it, so I found file manager super user mode..It did not ask me for my root password, and I can find nothing in the directory about gtcam or ownership, it dose however open my home folder. Any tips. I will be here a while longer hours I think. Its ok my wife is out lol. so no worries about divorce lol. --- -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Fwd: arrrgghhh
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 01:01, Anne Wilson wrote: A newbie has contacted me for help. So far he has not managed to get himself onto the mailing lists, so I'm all he has got for now. I'm puzzled about his current problem. Obviously a permissions problem, but I don't know what questions to ask. Help, anyone? Anne -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: arrrgghhh Date: Monday 22 Sep 2003 9:25 pm From: philip [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am using Gnome as my desktop. The program says I do not own it, so I found file manager super user mode..It did not ask me for my root password, and I can find nothing in the directory about gtcam or ownership, it dose however open my home folder. Any tips. I will be here a while longer hours I think. Its ok my wife is out lol. so no worries about divorce lol. --- gtkam (if that's what he's asking about) is chmod 755 root.root on my box. Perhaps it needs to be chmod'd to 755? However I don't know what the it is that he doesn't own. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Fwd: arrrgghhh
On Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 9:59 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 01:01, Anne Wilson wrote: A newbie has contacted me for help. So far he has not managed to get himself onto the mailing lists, so I'm all he has got for now. I'm puzzled about his current problem. Obviously a permissions problem, but I don't know what questions to ask. Help, anyone? Anne -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: arrrgghhh Date: Monday 22 Sep 2003 9:25 pm From: philip [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am using Gnome as my desktop. The program says I do not own it, so I found file manager super user mode..It did not ask me for my root password, and I can find nothing in the directory about gtcam or ownership, it dose however open my home folder. Any tips. I will be here a while longer hours I think. Its ok my wife is out lol. so no worries about divorce lol. --- gtkam (if that's what he's asking about) is chmod 755 root.root on my box. Perhaps it needs to be chmod'd to 755? However I don't know what the it is that he doesn't own. James James, I'm puzzled why FileManager SUMode didn't ask for the root password. Would this happen if he hadn't created any users? Could that be the real problem? It's trying to know what to ask him that's my problem. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Fwd: arrrgghhh
Anne Wilson schrieb am Wed, 24 Sep 2003 12:53:42 +0100: James, I'm puzzled why FileManager SUMode didn't ask for the root password. Would this happen if he hadn't created any users? Could that be the real problem? It's trying to know what to ask him that's my problem. That was the first thing that came to my mind when I read the mail. Or that he had logged in as root. Some people do that out of convenience and don't think that it may cause such problems (or may not). wobo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Fwd: arrrgghhh
Anne, Here are some questions that come to mind: * Who did he log in as? root or a user? * Did he set a root password during install? * The program refers to gtcam or Gnome? * Is he sure gtcam is installed? * What directory was he looking in? * What file manager was he using? * What view was he using in the file manager? Icons? Details? Miark On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 09:01:12 +0100, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A newbie has contacted me for help. So far he has not managed to get himself onto the mailing lists, so I'm all he has got for now. I'm puzzled about his current problem. Obviously a permissions problem, but I don't know what questions to ask. Help, anyone? Anne -- Forwarded Message -- I am using Gnome as my desktop. The program says I do not own it, so I found file manager super user mode..It did not ask me for my root password, and I can find nothing in the directory about gtcam or ownership, it dose however open my home folder. Any tips. I will be here a while longer hours I think. Its ok my wife is out lol. so no worries about divorce lol. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Fwd: arrrgghhh
On Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 1:25 pm, Miark wrote: Anne, Here are some questions that come to mind: * Who did he log in as? root or a user? * Did he set a root password during install? * The program refers to gtcam or Gnome? * Is he sure gtcam is installed? * What directory was he looking in? * What file manager was he using? * What view was he using in the file manager? Icons? Details? Thanks, Miark. A good start. I have a gut feeling that the problem is in the login - possibly no user set up. I'll question that one. As for the camera problem, we have little to go on, so I'll tackle that as a separate list of questions. He said he was using gnome as his dm, so he may be using a fm that I'm unfamiliar with. I'll see what I can get out of him. Thanks for the suggestions. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Fwd: arrrgghhh
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 12:53, Anne Wilson wrote: I am using Gnome as my desktop. The program says I do not own it, so I found file manager super user mode..It did not ask me for my root password, snip James, I'm puzzled why FileManager SUMode didn't ask for the root password. Would this happen if he hadn't created any users? Could that be the real problem? It's trying to know what to ask him that's my problem. Anne Anne, File Manager Super User Mode doesn't ask and DOESN'T put you into su mode in Gnome, though it does both in KDE, at least on my 9.1 installation. Dunno why. It's not a question of having logged in as root. I've made a note of this in one of the TWiki entries somewhere. DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Fwd: arrrgghhh
On Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 2:45 pm, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 12:53, Anne Wilson wrote: I am using Gnome as my desktop. The program says I do not own it, so I found file manager super user mode..It did not ask me for my root password, snip James, I'm puzzled why FileManager SUMode didn't ask for the root password. Would this happen if he hadn't created any users? Could that be the real problem? It's trying to know what to ask him that's my problem. Anne Anne, File Manager Super User Mode doesn't ask and DOESN'T put you into su mode in Gnome, though it does both in KDE, at least on my 9.1 installation. Dunno why. It's not a question of having logged in as root. I've made a note of this in one of the TWiki entries somewhere. DougB That's incredible! There isn't much point in it, in that case. I wonder if he would be prepared to stick to kde until he has things up and running and explore other dms later. I'll suggest it to him. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Fwd: arrrgghhh
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 04:53, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 9:59 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 01:01, Anne Wilson wrote: A newbie has contacted me for help. So far he has not managed to get himself onto the mailing lists, so I'm all he has got for now. I'm puzzled about his current problem. Obviously a permissions problem, but I don't know what questions to ask. Help, anyone? Anne if he's running at security level 1 then that would explain it right there. James -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: arrrgghhh Date: Monday 22 Sep 2003 9:25 pm From: philip [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am using Gnome as my desktop. The program says I do not own it, so I found file manager super user mode..It did not ask me for my root password, and I can find nothing in the directory about gtcam or ownership, it dose however open my home folder. Any tips. I will be here a while longer hours I think. Its ok my wife is out lol. so no worries about divorce lol. --- gtkam (if that's what he's asking about) is chmod 755 root.root on my box. Perhaps it needs to be chmod'd to 755? However I don't know what the it is that he doesn't own. James James, I'm puzzled why FileManager SUMode didn't ask for the root password. Would this happen if he hadn't created any users? Could that be the real problem? It's trying to know what to ask him that's my problem. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
