Re: always ask for root password

2004-11-06 Thread Ananda Kumar Samaddar
e: > On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 04:12:51 +, Ananda Kumar > Samaddar wrote: > > > When I boot my custom compiled kernel (2.6.8) the > system always asks for > > a root password (Ctrl-D for normal startup). > > That kernel is being booted into single-user mode. > >

always ask for root password

2004-11-06 Thread Ananda Kumar Samaddar
Hello everyone. I'm a long time Debian user (four and a half years) and just successfully installed Sarge on a new machine. I'm just getting to grips with it but I have an extremely annoying problem. When I boot my custom compiled kernel (2.6.8) the system always asks for a root password (Ctrl-D

using Tex / LaTeX as non-root

2003-02-27 Thread Ananda Kumar Samaddar
Hi All, can somebody help with me with said subject? Since I upgraded to Woody, my texmf tree in /var/spool has not been changeable by a normal user. So as a normal user I cannot generate new tfm or pk files. This is very annoying as I use both LyX and TeXmacs. How do I rectify this so that an