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Ive been running as root as long as ive had linux.
People tell me its bad, and i guess i really should use a user account. What's the best way to switch over to a user account and keeping all prefrences, etc.
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I would simply create the account via the useradd command and then move all the 'dotfiles' like .vimrc, .bashrc, etc.. to that user's home directory. Are there any particular settings that you are concerned with?
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i get a lot of access denied errors on files copied from /root. gsfgf is in wheel so what premissions do i need?
also is it bad to leave /root symlinked to /home/gsfgf?
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| gsfgf wrote: | | i get a lot of access denied errors on files copied from /root. gsfgf is in wheel so what premissions do i need? |
What are the owner and group ids for the files? Are they still owned by root?
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| Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2002 10:01 am Post subject: |
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copy the files as root and then | Code: | | chown <insert_username> * |
those files 
...and to be sure you don't go back to root, use a fingertwisting password for the next couple of weeks  ...worked for me
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i chowned -R gsfgf ~/* and ~.* and ~/.*/*
when i start x, flux still looks in /root/.fluxbox. how do i fis this and will all apps have this prob.
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| Quote: | | also is it bad to leave /root symlinked to /home/gsfgf? |
Permission-wise, I don't think it's a good idea.
| Quote: | | when i start x, flux still looks in /root/.fluxbox. how do i fis this and will all apps have this prob. |
Start x as the gsfgf user and it should look for your dot files in ~/. Your symlink could be causing problems. |
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| gsfgf wrote: | i get a lot of access denied errors on files copied from /root. gsfgf is in wheel so what premissions do i need?
also is it bad to leave /root symlinked to /home/gsfgf? |
Yes, pretty bad. The definitive solution should be (as root):
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# cp -R /root/.* /home/gsfgf/
# chown -R gsfgf:users /home/gsfgf/*
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| Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2002 2:35 pm Post subject: |
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#chown gsgfs /home/gsgfs/*/* and then even deeper just to make sure all get owned by you
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| nano wrote: | | #chown gsgfs /home/gsgfs/*/* and then even deeper just to make sure all get owned by you |
You don't have to do that. That's what the -R does in
| mdpye wrote: | | Code: | | # chown -R gsfgf:users /home/gsfgf/* |
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As a matter of form, I would just do
| Code: | | chown -R gsfgf:users /home/gsfgf |
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| Code: | | chown -R gsfgf:users ~gsfgf |
I agree that the flux problem is probably due to a symlink. Look for all symlinks in your home directory by:
| Code: | | find /home/gsfgf -type l |
(I used 'man find' to find that particular usage.)
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i unsymlinked /root and /home/gsfgf since i had to mess w/ ownership.
i still get the fluxbox error, though.
there are no flux related symlinks in ~/
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What happens if you rename .Xauthority to something else? I'm thinking maybe that it was roots file could be causing an issue (just a guess, no idea).
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that didn't help
also, nice won't work running as a user. How do i get that workin?
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What files are giving you access denied errors?
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| Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2002 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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/root/.fluxbox/menu
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Now we're getting somewhere. Why do you have your user trying to access files in root's homedir?
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| gsfgf wrote: | | nice won't work running as a user. How do i get that workin? |
nice works for any user, but only in the polite direction.
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| kanuslupus wrote: | | Now we're getting somewhere. Why do you have your user trying to access files in root's homedir? |
I dunno. i want it to look in /home/gsfgf/.fluxbox. I just don't know here to change that.
Edit: .fluxbox/init explicitly defined tle location of the menu by default.
should i file a bug report
and how can i make nice work in the maen dir? should i just use sudo?
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Another problem:
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sh-2.05a$ oowriter ]
I'm confused because I can't find OpenOffice's user files.
Your ~/.sversionrc file tells they should be under ~/.openoffice/1.0.1,
but they are not. Please fix the situation manually.
You may want to edit ~/.sversionrc to indicate where is OO
installed, or remove it if you did remove your installation
directory manually (you bad one).
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i edited ~/.sversionrc to make it pint to the right location, but i still get this error.
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I can't su root,
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sh-2.05a$ su root
Password:
su: Authentication failure
Sorry.
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the pass is right. i can login as root, but when i try to mount something i get an error saying only root can do that.
EDIT: fixed it. i'd messed up some ownerships.
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| Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2002 2:00 pm Post subject: |
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its because some of the fluxbox config files wil link to root stuff.
you will need to edit
~/.fluxbox/init
might be better just to delete the directory and then just reconfigure it if this doesnt work. |
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| Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2002 5:55 pm Post subject: |
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| gsfgf wrote: | Another problem:
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sh-2.05a$ oowriter ]
I'm confused because I can't find OpenOffice's user files.
Your ~/.sversionrc file tells they should be under ~/.openoffice/1.0.1,
but they are not. Please fix the situation manually.
You may want to edit ~/.sversionrc to indicate where is OO
installed, or remove it if you did remove your installation
directory manually (you bad one).
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i edited ~/.sversionrc to make it pint to the right location, but i still get this error.
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I can't su root,
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sh-2.05a$ su root
Password:
su: Authentication failure
Sorry.
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the pass is right. i can login as root, but when i try to mount something i get an error saying only root can do that.
EDIT: fixed it. i'd messed up some ownerships. |
wheel?
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| Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2002 11:38 pm Post subject: |
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yep i'm in wheel
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