On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 09:53:33AM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Steve Borho wrote:
>
> > Nah, where people run into problems is when they're in X and decide
> > they need a root shell so they drop to VT2 and log in as root. When
> > they do that they loose ownership of the floppy and cdrom until they
> > re-login again.
>
> That's not a problem in Red Hat 6.2 (and I think 6.1?). If PAM is up to
> date, then /var/lock/console.lock and /var/lock/console/* will be used to
> maintain permissions for the first user to log in, until all of his
> sessions have closed.
good to know. thanks.
> Even when this was a problem, an xterm with "su - root" was the answer :)
sudo works even better.
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