User/Root Questions - SuSE 8.1
I've been using SuSE since 6.4, but I always logged in as root, knowing it wasn't the safest arrangement. I was the only one using the computer, and too lazy to set up a user to my liking. Shortly before 8.1 was released, I had a computer crash, so that I was starting over from scratch with 8.1, so I decided to do it properly and only use root for configuring things. And that's where I ran into problems Problem 1: I'd like to be able to access the same mail/mailboxes under both root and my user. Is there a way to do this? I'd also like any additional software installed under root to be accessable to the user if possible. Problem 2: I've downloaded a couple of programs from the internet. Despite changing their attributes to execute, the root bash shell does not recognize them as programs. Any ideas? Thanks Hilary
Hi,
for problem 2:
have you tried running them with ./filename ?
Do they have the correct ownership ?
for problem 1 ... not sure actually ... should be possible ... perhaps by
creating a group for root and the user and giving it the correct
ownership...
regards
chris
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Hilary Hertzoff"
I've been using SuSE since 6.4, but I always logged in as root, knowing it wasn't the safest arrangement. I was the only one using the computer, and too lazy to set up a user to my liking. Shortly before 8.1 was released, I had a computer crash, so that I was starting over from scratch with 8.1, so I decided to do it properly and only use root for configuring things. And that's where I ran into problems
Problem 1: I'd like to be able to access the same mail/mailboxes under both root and my user. Is there a way to do this? I'd also like any additional software installed under root to be accessable to the user if possible.
Problem 2: I've downloaded a couple of programs from the internet. Despite changing their attributes to execute, the root bash shell does not recognize them as programs. Any ideas?
Thanks Hilary
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On November 21, 2002 08:48 am, Hilary Hertzoff wrote:
I've been using SuSE since 6.4, but I always logged in as root, knowing it wasn't the safest arrangement. I was the only one using the computer, and too lazy to set up a user to my liking. Shortly before 8.1 was released, I had a computer crash, so that I was starting over from scratch with 8.1, so I decided to do it properly and only use root for configuring things. And that's where I ran into problems
Problem 1: I'd like to be able to access the same mail/mailboxes under both root and my user. Is there a way to do this? I'd also like any additional software installed under root to be accessable to the user if possible.
Simple thing is to forward all root mail to the user. That way the user gets all the root mail. It's likely the software will be accessable by the user. That shouldn't be an issue.
Problem 2: I've downloaded a couple of programs from the internet. Despite changing their attributes to execute, the root bash shell does not recognize them as programs. Any ideas?
Is this a path problem? Root path doesn't include the . directory [the one you're in] for obvious security reasons. What happens when you type the full pathname to the program? Does that work? What's the error message? I don't remember the last time I logged in as root. If I need to do something I'll su/sux. Nick
The 02.11.21 at 08:48, Hilary Hertzoff wrote:
Problem 1: I'd like to be able to access the same mail/mailboxes under both root and my user. Is there a way to do this? I'd also like any additional software installed under root to be accessable to the user if possible.
No, because of permissions, as far as I know. But you can easily automatically send every thing mailed to root to a user; in fact, yast directly asks for this user.
Problem 2: I've downloaded a couple of programs from the internet. Despite changing their attributes to execute, the root bash shell does not recognize them as programs. Any ideas?
They will not be programs (if they were, they would most probably already have the proper attribute). Give a more detailed example, please :-) -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
On Thursday 21 November 2002 03:38 pm, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The 02.11.21 at 08:48, Hilary Hertzoff wrote:
Problem 1: I'd like to be able to access the same mail/mailboxes under both root and my user. Is there a way to do this? I'd also like any additional software installed under root to be accessable to the user if possible.
No, because of permissions, as far as I know. But you can easily automatically send every thing mailed to root to a user; in fact, yast directly asks for this user.
I've worked this one out, thanks everybody.
Problem 2: I've downloaded a couple of programs from the internet. Despite changing their attributes to execute, the root bash shell does not recognize them as programs. Any ideas?
They will not be programs (if they were, they would most probably already have the proper attribute). Give a more detailed example, please :-)
The one I was working with was Readerware, but using ./readerware seems to be working. Thanks for the quick responses. Hilary
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