RE: Root User Equivalence in Text-Only

2002-06-14 Thread Ashwin Kutty
Actually, when you boot into single mode, all you gotta do is type passwd, enter the password you want, and this will be the new root password, unless I am completely missing the question here.. On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Glenn Goodspeed wrote: > Tony - Thanks for the idea, but it doesn't seem to wor

Re: Root User Equivalence in Text-Only

2002-06-13 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-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. Bu

RE: Root User Equivalence in Text-Only

2002-06-13 Thread Glenn Goodspeed
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. Anyt

Re: Root User Equivalence in Text-Only

2002-06-13 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13-Jun-2002/15:34 -0500, Glenn Goodspeed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello, All - Can anyone tell me how to give a normal user root equivalence >on a RedHat 7.3 system in text-only mode? (Used to be able to do that in >Linuxconf.) Thanks. -Glen

Root User Equivalence in Text-Only

2002-06-13 Thread Glenn Goodspeed
Title: Root User Equivalence in Text-Only Hello, All - Can anyone tell me how to give a normal user root equivalence on a RedHat 7.3 system in text-only mode?  (Used to be able to do that in Linuxconf.)  Thanks.   -Glenn.