Re: [expert] One more question and a thanx too

2000-02-29 Thread Ron Stodden
Joseph, Look up the su and kdesu commands. It's a good idea to set up a characteristic theme for user root. Then when you, as a normal user, su and become root, the windows will come up in those colours to remind you. iTOOL wrote: I cannot run linuxconf, nor can I peruse the /var/log

RE: [expert] One more question and a thanx too

2000-02-29 Thread Joe Sheble
PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ron Stodden Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 2:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] One more question and a thanx too Joseph, Look up the su and kdesu commands. It's a good idea to set up a characteristic theme for user root. Then when you, as a normal user

Re: [expert] One more question and a thanx too

2000-02-29 Thread Ron Stodden
Joe Sheble wrote: I have used su during some of my configuration, so I'm familiar with it. However, it doesn't really answer my question on how to change (and have them take effect) user permissions for a user, to grant him the SuperUser access. I am aghast. What you set out is exactly

Re: [expert] One more question and a thanx too

2000-02-29 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
I'm not sure how clear this is yet, so I hope this clarifies: First, the reason that you aren't supposed to run as root is because root has all the priviliges necessary to completely destroy your system. Even if you could grant another user those same privileges (and you can't; that's

[expert] One more question and a thanx too

2000-02-28 Thread iTOOL
Thanx for everybody for the answers regarding the hosts.allow and hosts.deny files... I got them rectified... However, I have one more simple (?) question in regards to users privledges. As per the instructions during installation I create a different or new user other than root. However, I've