Can I give root access to user?

[lebe0024]

I have mandrake 9.0, and I only have one user besides the root. It's annoying though to install anything because it wont let me create directories or anything like that. Is there an easy way to give my user admin acces?

 

[agnitrate]

You probably don't want to give them root access because then it defeats the purpose of not logging in as root 🙂

Just get into a console and type 'su' to become root and install the packages and when you are finished, type 'exit' to return back to your regular user status.

Also, I'm not sure how Mandrake handles this but you can have a group called 'wheel' that gives a user many of the same privileges as root (it can't do rm -rf / , but hey 😉 ) without having to login as root to do certain things.

-silver

 

[n0cmonkey]

Setup sudo. It will temporarily give you root privs for some thing (whatever you configure it to give you those rights for). But do not change your uid to 0. That will cause problems and create an immense security hazard. If your normal user cannot create directories and whatnot in a particular location that may be a clue that you are doing something you shouldnt. Try ~/, since that is where most of your stuff should go anyhow.

 

[lebe0024]

Thanks guys. Maybe I too will become a linux zealot someday 🙂

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: lebe0024
Thanks guys. Maybe I too will become a linux zealot someday 🙂

Why? I dont like Linux much, and Im doing fine with it, or I would if I used it 😛

 

[lebe0024]

I've got it dual booted, so it will be fun for me to learn it slowly, when I have free time.

 

[Derango]

Just make sure you learn the CLI. Don't stick in the GUI the entire time. Sure its nice, but the CLI is where the real power of linux comes in.