Root Permissions

["Jesse D . Sightler" <jsight pair com>]

Are the mountable volumes set so that they are user mountable?  AFAIK,
GMC will not display them unless they have the user option set in your
/etc/fstab



On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 17:28:35 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?
> 
> 
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