-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 13-Jun-2002/16:47 -0500, Glenn Goodspeed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Tony - Thanks for the idea, but it doesn't seem to work. The file, >/etc/group, contains a line - root:x:0:root. I added my user name to >this like so - root:x:0:root,glenn. But I am still unable to copy a file >from my home directory to another user's home directory while logged in >as glenn. Anything else I need to do? Have I misunderstood root >equivalence? Thanks. -Glenn.
For that you need to have an effective UID of 0. You can do this by editing /etc/passwd to change your UID, but that may have non-fatal, but inconvenient side effects. Tony - -- Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D AOL/Yahoo Chat: TonyG05 HomePage: <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> Linux: the choice of a GNU Generation. <http://www.linux.org/> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Anthony E. Greene 0x6C94239D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> iD8DBQE9CSDPpCpg3WyUI50RAlWmAKC/YAnCRVZWhCbPABC/Ncu89eyVCwCg3Rio 2YLa44wd2KeVk0Pc22aC/3E= =nmQ0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
