Re: [newbie] setuid root?

2001-03-08 Thread Dave Sherman
Normally I DO RTFM, but in this case, I did not know WITFM (Where In The F***ing Manual) to find what I was looking for. I am familiar with the chmod command, but I did not know it was applicable in this situation, so it did not occur to me to 'man chmod'. Nevertheless, thanks for the info. Da

[newbie] setuid root?

2001-03-05 Thread Dave Sherman
Hi all, I am trying to use LinNeighborhood for network share access on my LAN. Unfortunately, I keep receiving the error message: smbmnt must be installed suid root for direct user mounts (501,501) I have heard about setting a program to run as root, but unfortunately I do not know the

Re: [newbie] Setuid

2001-02-01 Thread Otto Duarte
Hi again, I managed to fix this point, it was very easy! I setuid for root and changed the rights on the /dev/ttS1 -> /dev/modem and that's it Thanks anyhow Otto > > Hi, > > I want to run gnome-ppp as user, but I get an error log saying that I > must be root since pppd is not setuid-root >

[newbie] Setuid

2001-02-01 Thread otto
Hi, I want to run gnome-ppp as user, but I get an error log saying that I must be root since pppd is not setuid-root pppd is set -rwxr-xr-x, root root my uid is 501 How should I set the rights and whar should I change? Thanks Otto