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Hello, and thank you in advanced for reading this and probably answering. Really apreciated.
Ok lets get down to the grain, see if i start gnome in root i get a bunch of errors blabla. I created a user with "adduser" and i got a user cool and all. Everything works fine until i try to run something like userdel or any managing commands also in the gnome when i try to edit something like the login screen i get "not a root user".
What i want.
What i want is to get this user to get more power like root... As much power as root, but not a root. Be able to edit everything or anything, since its my computer and it's only for personal use.
The best approach is to run as a normal user with normal permissions most of the time, and then switch to being root only when you need to.
At any time in a terminal you can type 'su', enter your root password, and then any subsequent commands you type in that terminal will be run with root priveleges. Then type 'exit' to go back to being a mortal user again.
If this isn't satisfactory, you could instead look into using the sudo program to allow regular users to execute some commands as root.
Well i know what you all mean, but i think Oinponion hit the spot. Have you ever tried to run gnome is a recently created user? You can't doo much of configuring.
See for example in root i can play music... and in the user i cant play anything. or i think.
Last edited by Chimera1234; 01-15-2006 at 07:54 AM.
Well it's permissions problem - as I've sad, try to add your user to appropriate groups. My shots: audio, video, games, cdrom, disk, lp, man. I'm not sure of them all, never checked what are them ment to be used for...
You know what i did? I ided the root and added every single group he is in (me). Then when i adduser i gave all the same groups. I don't know if it is all wrong, what i need to do is pay a professional slacker :P Just to set up an account. Its not that i am noob to slack or linux... Only this is the first time i took the time to appriciate the "accounts" since they give me the screensaver and gnome doesn't screw up when in non-root user.
I am getting off topic here, but what i said up doesn't work. I'll hope someone actually went by what i am going on now. Thank you Oinopion for answering and all the ones i didn't name.
Does anyone know if modifing the linux code by adding windows code illigal?
Does anyone know if modifing the linux code by adding windows code illigal?
If you mean MS Windows (r) code (I don't know where have you this from) AFAIK any modification of Windows code is illegal and adding it to other code is modification, thus i would be illegal.
If it is code that you have written or you have found in Net (on one of free licenses, ie. GNU) is legal.
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