[Novalug] permission problem??

[Beartooth]

On Fri, 19 Sep 2008, Megan Larko wrote:


> Take back the box.  Any box to which you have physical access 
> is yours!

 	Well, so I thought, too.

>>  	Is there some way, short of wiping the whole hard drive
>>  and doing a fresh install, to convert it into something like
>>  a normal desktop?? Preferably all in one fell swoop??

> Enter the command "passwd".  This will change the root password 
> for you.  A reinstallation not required.

 	Been there, done that, although not quite that way. Root 
is me, with my password. And things like system-config-services, 
which require root authentication, get it; but it still refuses 
to let me (logged in as btth, authenticated to s-c-s as root) do 
things like starting the hal-daemon. If I try to do usermount, I 
get a message saying "There are no filesystems which you are 
allowed to mount or unmount. Contact your administrator."

 	I tried going  into system-config-users, and adding btth 
(temporarily, very temporarily) to root's group. Even that didn't 
do the trick.


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