Re: root, superusers, and mounting...

2003-02-11 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 06:40:57PM -0700, Tass wrote: Thanks. Since I don't yet know what fstab is, and since the sudo suggestion offered by Todd sounds like it is exactly what I was looking for, I'm now wrestling my way through that process. I do have a pretty good book. But I'm not

Re: root, superusers, and mounting...

2003-02-11 Thread Tass
{{ BEGIN ORIGINAL MESSAGE }} SUBJECT Re: root, superusers, and mounting... On 2/11/2003 I was just minding my own business when Kevin MacNeil wrote: )On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 06:40:57PM -0700, Tass wrote: ) Thanks. ) Since I don't yet know what

root, superusers, and mounting...

2003-02-10 Thread Tass
Greetings. New to the list, new to Red Hat (8.0), long time W2k IT. I'll try not to inundate with every little question that pops up. But I've found the first question that I can't locate the answer to on my own, so your help would be appreciated. In order to have greater access while

Re: root, superusers, and mounting...

2003-02-10 Thread Joe Polk
If I understand you correctly, you took an existing account and named it root. If so, you could be logging in with the new root and not the true root account. The system creates root by default, so you don't need to create one. This might explain the error. Also, superuser is not a user per se'.

Re: root, superusers, and mounting...

2003-02-10 Thread Raymundo M. Vega
being root is not using the name root but the id must be 0, type id and enter, see if your id is 0 that is cero or anything else raymundo Tass wrote: Greetings. New to the list, new to Red Hat (8.0), long time W2k IT. I'll try not to inundate with every little question that pops up.

Re: root, superusers, and mounting...

2003-02-10 Thread Tass
no restrictions about writing directories and files (just as a test) into the /root, (et.al) directory. So that's my story. Believe it, or else. :-) ht {{ BEGIN ORIGINAL MESSAGE }} SUBJECT Re: root, superusers, and mounting... On 2/10/2003 I

Re: root, superusers, and mounting...

2003-02-10 Thread Tass
{{ BEGIN ORIGINAL MESSAGE }} SUBJECT Re: root, superusers, and mounting... On 2/10/2003 I was just minding my own business when Raymundo M. Vega wrote: )being root is not using the name root but the id must be 0, )type id and enter, see if your id

Re: root, superusers, and mounting...

2003-02-10 Thread Raymundo M. Vega
have you tried: su - what happens, it should ask for root password raymundo Tass wrote: {{ BEGIN ORIGINAL MESSAGE }} SUBJECT Re: root, superusers, and mounting... On 2/10/2003 I was just minding my own business when Raymundo M. Vega wrote

Re: root, superusers, and mounting...

2003-02-10 Thread Tass
{{ BEGIN ORIGINAL MESSAGE }} SUBJECT Re: root, superusers, and mounting... On 2/10/2003 I was just minding my own business when Raymundo M. Vega wrote: )have you tried: ) )su - ) )what happens, it should ask for root password ) )raymundo I could

Re: root, superusers, and mounting...

2003-02-10 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Tass wrote: id shows user as edit (account I created during install), gid=0(root) it also shows the 4 groups I currently have this account assigned to. In order: root, adm, users, edit (also created at install) gid != uid You need uid equivalent to root to perform

Re: root, superusers, and mounting...

2003-02-10 Thread Ze Ji Li
Hi, why not modify fstab to allow regular user to mount/umount cdrom and floppy? Ze - Original Message - From: Tass [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 2:13 PM Subject: Re: root, superusers, and mounting... {{ BEGIN ORIGINAL MESSAGE

Re: root, superusers, and mounting...

2003-02-10 Thread Raymundo M. Vega
and floppy? Ze - Original Message - From: Tass [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 2:13 PM Subject: Re: root, superusers, and mounting... {{ BEGIN ORIGINAL MESSAGE }} SUBJECT Re: root, superusers, and mounting

Re: root, superusers, and mounting...

2003-02-10 Thread Tass
ME EDIT the darn thing. Thanks to all for you help on this one. mucho gracias. ht {{ BEGIN ORIGINAL MESSAGE }} SUBJECT Re: root, superusers, and mounting... On 2/10/2003 I was just minding my own business when Raymundo M. Vega wrote: )or you