Gain root access to user

longnam · 03-29-2005, 11:19 AM

Hi there,

I am working on a small project, which i have to setup so that Slack is autologin to X ,the problem i have is, I can't setup autologin for root, but if i use a normal account for autologin it doesn't have superuser access to run command such as: mount ... etc. Is there away to get around this problem??

thanks in advance

cavalier · 03-29-2005, 11:29 AM

You could set up sudo to allow that nonpriviledged user to run those commands. It's how I've got mine set up, to allow me to run things like mount, init, and the like.

Jeebizz · 03-29-2005, 11:33 AM

yes there is a way, first, don't auto login to root, second, there is a way for a normal user to mount and umount without being root, if that is all that this whole problem is.

edit your fstab and just add noauto,ro,users to your cd/dvd and floppy devices, other filesystems such as partitions are already mounted during startup, and you only will have to make a correction if you have a fat32 partition and want a normal user to read write to it, or ntfs , and want a user to read it, (writing to ntfs is not recommended)

here is what I have in my fstab to give you an idea

Code:

/dev/hda3        swap             swap                 defaults                                     0   0
/dev/hda2        /                    reiserfs             defaults                                      1   1
/dev/hda1       /ntfs-c            ntfs                    ro,users,umask=0000                1   0
/dev/hda4       /fat32-d         vfat                     rw,users,umask=0000               0   0
/dev/dvd        /mnt/dvdrom   iso9660,udf        noauto,users,ro                         0   0
/dev/hdd        /mnt/cdrw       iso9660              noauto,users,ro                         0   0
/dev/fd0         /mnt/floppy      auto                   noauto,users,rw                        0   0
/dev/loop0     /mnt/iso           iso9660,udf        noauto,users,ro                        0   0
/dev/sda1      /mnt/cpflash     vfat                     noauto,users,ro                        0   0
devpts           /dev/pts         devpts                 gid=5,mode=620                     0   0
proc              /proc              proc                    defaults                                     0   0

Jeebizz · 03-29-2005, 11:36 AM

now if i could only get fstab to always show up correctly when i post even though i try to center everything...doh

, but you should get the idea

longnam · 03-29-2005, 11:39 AM

Thanks Jeebizz, I also want to know how to setup for my USB to automount when I plug it in and umount when I un-plug it ???

thanks much for any help.

Jeebizz · 03-29-2005, 11:43 AM

hrmm, that I'm afraid I can't help you with, never worked with automount sorry