How do i set myslef as administrator? or give me permissions

[Dolda2000]

How do you mean? How are you trying to access them?

[haryy]

through (i odnt know what it is called) it's like a my computer. Not through the termonal emulator. just like in windows....my computer.

[haryy]

Its the Home place. It wont let me go onto the CD drive. I got my harddrive workin and everyhting. But know i cant get into the CDROM. any help would be greatly appreciated.


-haryy

[Dolda2000]

Is that in GNOME or KDE?

[haryy]

KDE i believe

[Dolda2000]

I can't say that I've ever used KDE extensively, so someone who has will have to help you instead.

[danbo]

if you forget your root password it is easy to erase....... with red hat linux 8.0 you can boot off the redhat linux cd into rescue mode and alter /etc/shadow ....... once you have done this correctly the root password will be removed

and yes, the root user is unsafe for users who aren't total competant in what they are doing...... you have total control when logged in as root .... i only use it when i absolutely need to

[genlee]

it says that i dont have permissions to axs all of these. /mnt/cdrom, /mnt/cdrom2, /mnt/ disk, /mnt/floppy, /mnt/window (which is the windows partition)? How do i unlock them or how do i set my permissions differnet? thanks how do i do it so that i odnt have to be in a termonla emulator?


-haryyv

Use chown to change the ownership to your user so you can acess them or you can chmod them to give read/write permissions to all users. Might also want to use the users option in fstab so normal users can mount/unmount them.