Hi,

Im using fedora 10 on a g4 mac. Im having some very frustrating problems.
1st- i can no longer use the command "su" when i try it ask for my password i enter it correctly and then it says /var/log: permission denied.
Something goes when i enter "gpasswd" or even try to enter chmod command to change permission.
2nd- i can't use sudo because i cant add my username funkymonkey to sudoers because when i try i get to add it i get denied permission. Ive tried everything i can think of. Im still fairly new to this so i tried everything ive learned so far. So can aybody with so experience please help me

Fedora 10 reached end of life over four years ago. Consequently, it is unsupported and can no longer receive security and other updates.

It might be time to look at something else.

Regarding your problem, what is the output of ls -l /var and ls -l /var/log?

This is a duplicate of the post here and should be merged, or whatever.

To OP - you are new here, but you should not post the same question multiple times in different forums per the LQ rules.

I tried ls -l/var it says it doesn't recognize command. Yea i know its out to date but its all I have. Cant really get anything else built it from scratch and until im able to update my os just trying to keep it going. Pretty much im trying to put my username in the sudoers so i can use sudo. Because fedora 10 sucks so bad they dont let you log onto root its self. You have to use su or sudo.

the way you used the command its should say not recognised... ls -l /var the correct way.

linux Distros since a long time has this feature, it is beacuse of PAM authentication they use and therefore GUI login to root is disabled however you can login via terminal.
so if disable PAM authentication where it says something like " !root silent" you have it done.

How would i go about disabling the PAM authentication then. Thanks your a big help for the tip

On ls -l /var/log it says permission denied on everything going down the list total 0

On ls -l/var it says total 68

ls -l/var is not valid so the total it shows is really meaningless. But I would expect it to say "Invalid option" instead.

ls -l /var is valid, but apparently /var permissions do not allow you to see inside - which is odd.

By the way, welcome to LQ - the hard way!