Re: I always have to log in as root!?
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven wrote:
> I have installed Linux and it works just fine, if I log in as root. When I log in as a 'normal' user a lot of thing don't work. For example I can't use the pon command when I am not the root. I also can't start X11 when I am not the root. The system tells me I have to be a root for this. I think this is not a good security situation.
Give yourself group rights that the program belongs to. For example if
ls -l /usr/bin/pon
-rwxr-xr-- 1 root dip 265 Mar 2 1997 /usr/bin/pon
Then a user has to be a member of group 'dip' to run program 'pon'.
See man pages on chown, chgrp etc.
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