RE: Root Permissions

[David Puryear <dayear codenet net>]

If Redhat is anything like Debian, cdrom is group cdrom, pppd is group dip, so
you just need to add yourself to those groups. Although you need to be root
edit /etc/group, afterwards, you don't need to be root to use those device.

        hth,
        David

On 12-Mar-99 St0rM wrote:
> Problem...
> IS not in fact a GNOME problem but i see a related problem with the SUID on
> ppd and other, like permission on CDROM...
> So, running GNOME with a non-root user is hard, and need certain
> adjustment...And running from ROOT is not safe, as all us known. I found some
> major problems:
> - pppd: cannot call if not set SUID from non-root users
> - CDROM: on RH 5.2 the device linked by /dev/cdrom is NON-readable from the
> world
> - gmc: it cannot move everything, and a simple su -c gmc doesn't work because
> users cannot access root's X server...
> - others that i don't remember...
> Is not a problem of gnome, obviusly, but for a tell-me-all user these can be
> some non-simple problems...
> What we can do? Someone have a tips?
> 
> Other thing...Playing with gnome-linuxconf i see, in the user management
> session, some options to give an user the SuperUser privileges...But it seems
> to not work...It can be a solution...Someone know why it does not work?