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is it me or does mandrake have a pretend root?
i installed mandrake 9.1
so far so good installation only took about 20-30 mins
ok so i specify a root password with no extra users, i do everything as root anyway...so then i get the login screen...everything is beautiful...so i login with root...familiar red screen since 7..anyway it bitches that im root and i can mess things up blah blah so i click continue...or so i think i do...then it tosses me back to the login screen so i goto try to login as root...it gets into kde....with the red background but it just stalls at the stop watch so i just go ctrl alt shift f1 and goto command line....i add a user with user add and startx again and login with that user..so i get into desktop just fine..everything works...then im liek ok lemme mount somthing...cant permission denied...ok i su root...and still permission denied...so ok im like lemm mkdir in the / ...cant permisio denied....so is there a super root that i dont know about? someone help! thanks.
im using redhat 5.2 and (under root) when ive tried to install a newer version of gmake / gnu make it comes up with a permission denied. well,
shift: shift <=#$ permission denied
i guess the world will never know........
-dan
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