User secruity
 

Hello,

I'm using a different user name (other than root) and I seem to be limited in the things I can do. Is there a way I could give my user "Power User" type access? I know I can use "SU" but I rather have a different method.


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RedHat Enterprise 4.0 WS
Kernel 2.6.9

That's pretty generic -- what are you thinking, "other methods?"
Search here or Google regarding "sudo" -- may be what you want.

Re: User secruity
 

unix/linux was designed this way for security reasons. Using su is probably the best thing to do when you need to do sys admin as root. Sudo, as suggested above, is good if you want your user to run some commands as root.

What I'm trying to do is get it to where I create/delete files and folders in my partions. I always need to sign into root to do something like that. I can't even run certain screensavers because of the fact I'm not root. I don't mind using SU or being root to install a prog but I don't want to use SU or root whenever I want to see a screensaver.

i'm no expert but can't you make whatever file you're trying to run owned by you with

chown user file? (do as root)

or change it's permissions to be read/write/executeby you/your group with chmod ?

I am sure if you put yourself in the video group you will be able to run all screensavers. As for creating and deleting files, you can give yourself permissions to do that using "chmod" as mentioned above. If you are just creating one or two directories/files, then I don't see a problem with using root.

Hello,

Thanks for the help guys. I know what I'm going to do now. I appreciate the advise.