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Old 05-18-2003, 04:36 AM   #1
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pretend root...


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.
 
Old 05-18-2003, 04:49 AM   #2
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Tried with that already ?
$ sudo su
 
Old 05-18-2003, 04:59 AM   #3
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sudo su?
 
Old 05-18-2003, 05:12 AM   #4
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type
# man sudo

you'll grab some good info on that
 
Old 05-18-2003, 08:19 AM   #5
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Isn't "sudo su" sort of redundant?

 
Old 05-18-2003, 08:32 PM   #6
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*japanese accent* HAI LINUX, SUDO SU!! *chops*
 
Old 05-21-2003, 07:47 PM   #7
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Quote:
Originally posted by Artimus
Isn't "sudo su" sort of redundant?

that just makes it so you dont have to type a root password to su
 
Old 07-23-2003, 07:50 PM   #8
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I'm having this same prob and I dunno how to fix it...
 
Old 07-23-2003, 08:02 PM   #9
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Sucks too
 
Old 07-23-2003, 08:08 PM   #10
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Welp I mean the entire red screen deal when loggin in as root...
Someone please help...
 
Old 09-21-2003, 11:22 PM   #11
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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
 
Old 09-26-2003, 07:53 AM   #12
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Cool

Yo
 
  


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