Root Group Not Behaving

borrrden · 06-09-2004, 08:04 PM

I changed my user account to be a member of the root group, so that I could read and execute things that other users could not (i.e. everything in the root directory). I did this so that I could make a guest account and put it on an FTP. But for some reason, even though I am a member of the root group, and it is my primary group, I still only have privileges that "other users" have. I can't read or execute anything unless the last number on chmod is 5.

What do I do?

I am on fedora core 2, kernel v. 2.6.5-1, i686

borrrden · 06-09-2004, 08:17 PM

nevermind...I feel silly...all I needed to do was login again

Capt_Caveman · 06-10-2004, 12:28 AM

I really wouldn't recommend doing it that way. If you really need to give a user access to certain commands that require root permissions, try using sudo and the /etc/sudoers file instead. If you personally just want to be able to execute commands as root when logged in as a normal user, try using su - instead. Giving other users full root privileges is a really bad idea.

borrrden · 06-11-2004, 11:19 PM

i was not planning on giving them full root privileges, no way...I wanted to set it up so that I could do root group things, and they couldn't.