Originally to: All Hello All! I have used my system a while as root. Now I like to change it to another username but how can I use the settings that I created as root? Can I copy the /root dir to /home/kees/ for example? I like to separate me as user from me as root. What do I have to take care about? Kees <-> Gateway Information. This message originated from a Fidonet System (http://www.fidonet.org) and was gated at TCOB1 (http://www.tcob1.net) Please do not respond direct to this message but via the list
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 06:00:40PM +0000, Kees Bergwerf wrote:
Originally to: All
Hello All!
I have used my system a while as root. Now I like to change it to another username but how can I use the settings that I created as root? Can I copy the /root dir to /home/kees/ for example? I like to separate me as user from me as root. What do I have to take care about?
*Sigh*, you ought to have created a normal user in the first place. "root" is for system management tasks, not for day to day use. Create youself a user using yast/system administration. This will create skeletons for all the major files you may need. If you have adjusted prompts etc in your root profile and want to import them I suggest you just use your mouse to cut and paste them (relevant files may be .profile, .bashrc, .bash_profile). If you have other files in /root you want then cp/mv them to your user's new home directory and chown to the new owner and chgrp to the group "users". Yast if I recall does not create a mail file for you, so you may have to do that by hand, create an empty file in /var/spool/mail with your name as it's filename, chown it to you, chgrp it to users and change permissions to 600. i.e. (as root) # cd /var/spool/mail # >kees # chown kees kees # chgrp users kees # chmod 600 kees While you are at it edit your /root/.profile, at the end put the following echo echo *WARNING* You are root, one typo and you can destroy your system echo -- Regards Cliff
Originally to: Cliff Sarginson Hello Cliff! Tuesday October 09 2001 08:20, Cliff Sarginson wrote to All:
settings that I created as root? Can I copy the /root dir to /home/kees/ for example? I like to separate me as user from me as root. What do I have to take care about?
CS> *Sigh*, you ought to have created a normal user in the first place. CS> "root" is for system management tasks, not for day to day use. CS> Create youself a user using yast/system administration. Well.. I am known as user also but I didn't use it. But now I like to change things. Thanks for your message. When I find some time, I will need it. Kees <-> Gateway Information. This message originated from a Fidonet System (http://www.fidonet.org) and was gated at TCOB1 (http://www.tcob1.net) Please do not respond direct to this message but via the list
Hi, Could anybody tell me how to add a new SCSI card into Linux. I added a AHA-1542C. It should be supported, but I don't know how to get the drivers loaded, or SuSe 7.2 to "see" it. Thanx Bert
On Saturday 13 October 2001 8:47 am, Bert Zefat wrote:
Hi,
Could anybody tell me how to add a new SCSI card into Linux.
I added a AHA-1542C. It should be supported, but I don't know how to get the drivers loaded, or SuSe 7.2 to "see" it.
Add the following to your LILO boot prompt:
aha1542=<addr>[,<buson>,<busoff>[,<DMA speed>]]
Something like linux aha1542=0x300 should do the trick. Once you've got it
going use YaST1 to add this to /etc/lilo.conf.
M
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Martin Webster
Hi Bert, * Bert Zefat [Sat, 13 Oct 2001 10:47:18 +0200]:
Could anybody tell me how to add a new SCSI card into Linux.
I added a AHA-1542C. It should be supported, but I don't know how to get the drivers loaded, or SuSe 7.2 to "see" it.
This depends on what else is your computer. If this is the only SCSI controller in your box, just change the alias scsi_hostadapter off to alias scsi_hostadapter aha1542 If you already have another SCSI controller installed and don't need the 1542C for booting, just add a modprobe aha1542 to /etc/init.d/boot.local If you need the 1542c for booting, add it to INITRD_MODULES in /etc/rc.config, call mk_initrd and then lilo. -- customer: My computer is running Windows98. hotline : And? customer: The machine doesn't work. hotline : You already said that.
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