On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 11:39:43 +0800 Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> +++ USM Bish [linux-india] <02/01/02 23:23 +0530>: > > On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 09:53:11PM +0530, K. Ghosh wrote: > > > In 7.1, when logged in as a user, to do anything requir- > > > ing su permission requires to either logout and login as > > > root, or open a virtual console and log in as root- both > > > being equally frustrating. > > > > This is very surprising. This defeats the very purpose of > > su. Does this happen with other WMs or from console ? > > Maybe with his security settings, redhat 7.2 does what freebsd does, and > allows only members of a certain group (say wheel) to su root? > I think I forgot to include that I am using X and Gnome. Same happens while using KDE .... of course, only in 7.1. As I said, with 7.2, things are better. But hey! I see an answer to my posting, what about the post itself? -K.Ghosh. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
