ing up my samsung c5220 G3 mobile phone to act as a modem to access internet on my linux based pc (suse 10.1). This required editing a few files as root: /etc/wvdial.conf & /etc/ppp/peers/wvdial.With those files adjusted, I accessed internet as root with the wvdial command, then closed the root session and went back to my user session. Wvdial did not work (device not available ttyusb2). sudo wvdial did not work: (user not allowed to execute /usr/bin/wvdial as root). But if I use su then wvdial works.What am I missing
I have (my) main account, which I have root access. I also have other users which can login, I setup wvdial shortcut on their desktop, but it won't allow them to use it because they aren't in sudoers list. I do not and don't want them to have access to other hard drives or root. How do I accomplish this? I did a chown on the wvdial file in ppp to myself, and added read access for other users, but still won't let them use wvdial due to sudoeers.
This is in ubuntu hardy with a multiboot vista/xp/hardy laptop. BTW, wvdial works great in my account/desktop.
Is It possible to change a process running in root-user to non-root-user by setting suid / uid / euid / gid etc... I so please instruct how, when and wat to set in order to change a process running in root-user to non-root user
i am having problems with privileges i have created a new user with my name, but i cant get root privileges on it. i need the same privileges as the root profile.
I no longer have access to my root desktop. On a session I attempted to change the root username but i apparently assigned it a wrong directory that does not exist. When I rebooted with my new root username, i was instead recognised as a simple user (no root privileges). I tried the console to change to "old" root but root password is not accepted and there is no way to access to sudoer files. it seems that inserting a new username requires root privileges and i am back to square one. Simply logging with old root username and password after restart gives me a blank screen with nothing on it and cannot even reboot.
i used opensuse 11.1 ...there is option for root user to create password for root...but for ubuntu i did not find anything like that...so how can i create root password....or how can i use root
i just installed linux mandriva 2009. i set password for root and created a user account. when i try to login as root, after logging out as user, it does not allow me and gives the error "root logins are not allowed". even it does not show the root account. if i try to go to root from konsole terminal using su root, it allows to enter as a root but when i try to start the GUI with startx it gives error.not sure what to do and why i can't see my account in GUI mode
I found that if any usual user is logged into a NDS-tree, then _local_ root has full access to user's network shares, including the user's home directory located on remote Netware-server. Is it by design or have I missed something? Nevertheless in windows local admin has no access to network resources mounted of any other user. If you runas shell (as admin) then admin in principle can't "see" network shares which were mounted (connected) by other users - they are accessible ("visible") per session.
I am using mint 8 for a 2 weeks, I am noob to linux but I like Mint than any other linux distro which is great alternative to windows. I have a problem regarding password reseting.
1. My laptop automatically get logged in without asking user name and password.
2. I tried to change password for newly created user and root user using graphical way but it does not work.
2. I can perform administrator task using only OEM user which is default inbuilt user of mint.
How can make my laptop to ask password when mint get booted? How to change password for other users?
A friend of mine has told me to set a root password and use root (f.e. switching to su in terminal and work with root rights instead).Is there any way to unset the root password? I know how to use sudo now.
We are trying to setup fedora 12, and it has installed and now is asking for a user name on the base install, so far all we have tried will not let us in. We have, installed it a few times to see if there is a place to install the uer name or is there a root user name to use?
After an upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10, my only non-root user on the system can't log in to X. Root can log in just fine. When I type my password into GDM, it attempts to start X but goes right back to GDM without starting X successfully or giving me any error messages. I'm using nvidia graphics drivers and dual monitors, and those work just fine in root's X session. How can I fix it so my non-root user can log in again?
I installed arch on to my dell (8250) p4 and everything went great until my log in window came up I tried logging and it would not except my user name or password. I was able to get in on root and made sure the user name password was valid and it was! No matter what name / password I add with full access it will only see root
In the installation I had given a user name and pass word.Now I can log as a other user but not as a root.I want to log as root.Is there any way to log as root.
Well I did something pretty stupid and now I can't log in with my user other than the root user. Basically, I wanted to change my username and so I when to the admin > user & accounts - and selected the account I wanted to change. Anyway I did that and then logged out. Since then all I get when I reseted is a spinning mouse ball and a black screen. I can get into the shell prompt - but I'm not sure how I'd go about fixing this issue I created. At the moment I'm logged in the shell with root, and if I type 'id' I can see my old username, but I think the links behind it are broken.
Akonadi can't run when log as user root due to mysql protection :
Code: [akonadiserver] Found mysql_install_db: "/usr/bin/mysql_install_db" [akonadiserver] Found mysqlcheck: "/usr/bin/mysqlcheck" [akonadiserver] Database process exited unexpectedly during initial connection! [akonadiserver] executable: "/usr/sbin/mysqld"
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So how to configure Kmail to read and delete local mail sent by other users or by system or apps ?
I started to use Ubuntu 9.1 today. It's the first version of linux I'm using. So my problem is that I always got a message in terminal, that says "are you root?", when I try to do something with apt-get. Well i tried to install a root, but it didn't work. One thing I almost forgot. Root is the Superuser that should be put on, when I installed the current version of ubuntu right? I don't understand how could it happen that the system didn't put the root on.
It seems little weird that I can shutdown my system (as non root user) from GUI but now from command line. I understand this may have to do with old unix tradition. I am now writing a script to shutdown systems after a certain period of inactivity. How do i shutdown system as non root users and without using sudo? Also the shutdown option in GUI must be calling a command line internally. Which is that option? Can I use that to shutdown system as non root user?
I often put together complete computers from spare parts. When I do, I put Linux on them and put my name as the root user. However, I don't build these to keep them for myself.....I usually end up giving them away to someone who needs one and can't afford to buy one. What I would like to do before givi9ng them away is to change the root user name to their name. How can I do that? CAN I do that?
how i know am in root user or another user? how to login as root user? sudo passwd root when i typed in termninal am getting this error pa1 is not in the sudoers file.
is any way to turn off that I need to type in my password every time I come back to my computer (after a while it the screen turn black and I need to log in again)?
Having trouble adding a regular user with ssh access on Hardy 8.04. I can ssh into root, but not into the newly created regular user with the same ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
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sshd_config has: AllowGroups sshlogin AllowUsers user root
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what could be preventing ssh login to ~user? And yes I would like to disable root ssh access, but it would be nice to be able to ssh into user first