administrator log in

[kwdaye]

Can someone please tell me how to login in to get administrator privlages.
I have a 300 gig Hdd (external) that I plug into the USB port but I can't access the Hdd because it says I don't have adminstrator privledges, how do I get those privledges to read the Hdd. It won't let me login in as root when I start the system

Thank you,
Kwdaye

[devils casper]

press Alt+F2, 'run command' window will pop up. type 'kdesu konqueror'.






Casper

[wolfton]

press Alt+F2, 'run command' window will pop up. type 'kdesu konqueror'.






Casper

Would it not be a more permanent fix to change the ownership of the device from 'root' to 'users', and make sure that the permissions are set to '-w' in fstab?

[devils casper]

which version of Mandriva do you have?







Casper

[kwdaye]

not sure, how do I find out, kde is 3.5.4, I downloaded it from the web, the free version, mandriva free version I suppose

[devils casper]

okkk ! execute this in terminal/konsole

su  -
konqueror

in case it doesn't work, post the output of 'fdisk -l' command. execute 'su -' before fdisk.





Casper

[kwdaye]

O.k. I'm about ready to give up on this stupid linux stuff and just use windows, anyway again that did not work I still can't access the external hdd and I still can't install programs. Is there a way i can login into linux at the login screen to get full access. Can I login as administrator or root or admin or what ever it takes to get this done. I am a windows user and I know you can login in as administrator, there has to be a way to do this with linux, right?!?

What about the way wolfton said to try it ????

[devils casper]

Would it not be a more permanent fix to change the ownership of the device from 'root' to 'users', and make sure that the permissions are set to '-w' in fstab?

it depends on the entry of USB drive in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab file.

I am a windows user and I know you can login in as administrator, there has to be a way to do this with linux, right?!?

yes ! you can do that but its not recommended. there is something wrong in settings. post the output of 'less /etc/fstab' command.




Casper

[rockwell]

This is just a guess but are you trying to log into Gnome as root? By default (at least in Debian) the Gnome config file is set to not allow root to log on. You can change this however in the gdm.conf file. You would change "AllowRoot=false" to AllowRoot=true".

[kwdaye]

Casper this is for you,

/dev/hdd1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hdd6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0022,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0022,iocharset=ut
f8,sync 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hdd5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/etc/fstab lines 1-6/6 (END)


Rockwell this is for you

Browser=true
SystemMenu=true
[daemon]
AutomaticLogin=
AutomaticLoginEnable=false
SystemMenu=true
SystemMenu=true
SystemMenu=true
SystemMenu=true

rockwell I tried to add the line but it would not be me change it