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[dirk2004]

Hi everyone; just loaded 1st install of R.Hat. I'm the root user and for some reason I'm unable to get into the /etc/grub.conf file. It says: Permission Denied.

I was under the impression that root usr had 100% access into all config files.

Any suggestions on how to allow access would be great.

Thanks,
C .R.

[mechmaster]

i dont think you have access ot certain things even with root access, such as the man pages and /etc/ i have tried and gotten permission denied. Ive always wondered whether it would be possible but i dont think it is. I may be wrong though. hope this helps

[dirk2004]

Thanx for the info.

Anyone else can suggest a fix for this would be great.

Running RH 9.0.

Thanks,
C.R.

[smindinvern]

As root, you have acess to _everything_. The most probable reason for this particular problem is that you don't have the correcto permissions set for anyone to read it. To change this, from the shell, type:

chmod +rw /boot/grub/grub.conf

this will change the permissions such that you can read and write to the grub.conf file, /etc/grub.conf is just a symlink to the real thing, and if reading from it gives you any trouble, you can execute this command on it, or you can just edit '/boot/grub/grub.conf'

[adam7979]

"As root, you have acess to _everything_."

not quite true if you're running FC3 or distro installed with SELinux where you need to disable the protection in order to modify system files. This serves as a last defence against those who "accidentally" broke into your system and gain "root" access ....

[smindinvern]

^^^Looks like somebody's trying to increase their post count...
True, but I though he was running redhat, not fedora.

[adam7979]

^^^Looks like somebody's trying to increase their post count... ....

lol, whatever.

[dirk2004]

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm using RedHat 9.0.

Thanks.
C.R.