On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 11:24:27AM -0500, doug wrote: > Can anyone point me in the direction of some good documentation for > permissions in linux? I have been logging in as a user account I created and > have been having some problems not being able to do things that require root > access (some things I need to log off and back on as root to do, "su" isn't > enough), I ended up making my regular account "root" level this morning (by > setting the number to 0 in /etc/passwd), which probably wasn't the wisest > thing to do, and at this point I think I may start doing more harm than > good. root sometimes needs it's environment (that adds */sbin) so you might want to use "su -" and see what happens. You might go to a different terminal and login as root. > Consequently the some things I am talking about are things like editing > files in my own "home" directory (I installed kylix and wrote a small > program that I compiled as my normal user saved in my local directory. Of > course I need to be in as root to run it:->) You messed up your home dir. Login as root. Change back the user id in /etc/passwd. Then "cd /home" "chown -R <user-name>.<user-name> <user-name>" Logout from root, login as <user-name> and it should work. > Even as a normal user I should > be able to uninstall things I have added, edit my own files etc... shouldn't > I? Definitely. florin -- "If it's not broken, is because you are not fixing it enough." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4