Re: Superuser priveleges for users

[Art Ross <aross skyenet net>]

"CHAN Chow Chin, David" wrote:

> Okay. From X-Windows, if you run Linuxconf, there is some other tabs that
> you can get for the superuser account.
> By default, when creating a superuser, you get minimal priviledges. So, you
> have to, not only create the account,
> you have to configure it so that you are able to run Linuxconf using the new
> account. I am sure there is a button
> that says "Enable user to run Linuxconf", in one of those tabs.
>
> David
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Art Ross [mailto:aross skyenet net]
> Sent: Tuesday, 06 February, 2001 10:22 AM
> To: redhat-install-list redhat com
> Subject: Superuser priveleges for users
>
> A group at our community college was trying to setup a normal user
> account to have superuser priveleges with Linuxconf.  When we gave a new
> account the superuser priveleges, we still could not start 'linuxconf'
> from this account.  We experiment with several different
> configurations.  What are we overlooking in our attempt?
>   Thanks in advance,
>   Art
>
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I've now selected all priveleges for this new account and I still cannot run
linuxconf from it.  It tells me /bin/linuxconf :  Permission denied.  Is it
trying to tell me that since the linuxconf file has permissions of 700 for the
owner  of root in the group of root, that I cannot execute it, even though I
have execution priveleges?  The account name is 'physics' and the group is
'physicsgroup'.
  Thank you for your help.
  Art