Ah yes, sudo is a Good Thing, although be wary of allowing "sudo su", for if
you are trying to limit your normal users' actions, and get a log of what
they sudo, you'll only ever see that they became root, at which point they
have untrackable control. In case I've lost you thus far, sudo
configuration on a system allows some 'normal' users to do certain commands
as root, which is really helpful in the right scenario.
The antithesis of this would be to do everything as root -- to have that be
your 'normal' user account!
Happy New Year!!
Ben
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 14:58:47 -0801
Jacob Meuser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 12:52:55PM -0800, Ben Barrett wrote:
| > 'chmod -R o+r targetdir' should work, but you might want to be wary
| > about proceeding to muck with your OS... heh heh.
| > So, are you particularly worried about the lost+found directory?
| > I think it is a place for OS recovery of lost files or inodes...
| > maybe someone can confirm that?
|
| Yes, there should be one in every partition (at least for ext[23], don't
| have one until needed for OpenBSD's ffs).
|
| > BTW, you can also 'chown -R me:me targetdir' where me:me is the
| > user:group of your normal user...
|
| I believe the permissions on the lost+found directory are such because
| there could be such things as copies of keys or passwd files in there.
| I wouldn't change them.
|
| I'd use sudo. The sudo program allows users to run commands as other
| users. For example, you could read the files in lost+found as root.
|
| Setting up and using sudo can be a little confusing at times, but if
| you decide to install it (which I and others on the list have suggested
| to people in the past), read sudo(8) and sudoers(5), and ask questions
| to the list :)
|
| > ciao and happy NYE,
|
| swizzle
|
| > | As root (using Konsole Super User) I tried chmod +r+w+x lost+found
| > | but no success. I also tried other variations but no success.
|
| # chmod ugo+rwx /whatever
|
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