If I understand you correctly, you took an existing account and named it
"root." If so, you could be logging in with the new "root" and not the
true root account. The system creates root by default, so you don't need
to create one. This might explain the error. Also, superuser is not a
user per se'. The su command will allow any old user to switch to root,
or any other user on the system provided you know their password. For
instance from a prompt:
$ su <enter>
You would be prompted for root's password.
$ su joe
You would be prompted for joe's password.
I'm not sure how you could have created a second root and the primary
root not answer the login, but that's my guess. Perhaps someone can
address this further.
<<JAV>>
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 18:10, Tass wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> New to the list, new to Red Hat (8.0), long time W2k IT.
>
> I'll try not to inundate with every little question that pops up. But I've
> found the first question that I can't locate the answer to on my own, so
> your help would be appreciated.
>
> In order to have greater access while learning the innards of Linux, I changed
> my User account from it's default to ROOT. (I know, don't run your system
> as root. But this is just a "learning" system and I plan on screwing it up many
> times before I even build another box for any really important work.)
> I just wanted to be able to get everywhere without having to log out/in all of
> the time.
>
> Well, I have no idea how much damage I've caused with this, but the first thing
> I've encountered is that now I can't access the CDROM. Error message says:
> "Could not mount device.... .....must be superuser to use mount."
>
> I don't see any "superuser" in the groups. And I thought that as "Root" it would
> be complete and unrestricted access just as it is for "Administrator" in W2k.
>
> So any ideas why I can't open the CD? Or any feedback as to this "superuser"
> issue?
>
> TIA gang.
>
> ht
>
>
>
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