On SUSE 9.0 how do I set my user account to have root rights? I want to be able to access some Netware mount points but to write to them I have to have root access. I went into Yast and edited my account to add me to the root group and make that group my default but I still dont have root rights. How do I do this? As you can tell I'm sure I am a linux newbie.

Any help appritiated.

Thanks

Hi dstjames,

I think you're probably asking the wrong question. You shouldn't give your account root rights because someone who can get control of your account could then control the whole computer very easily - the traditional Windows situation that has led to one group of Polish hackers claiming to control 450,000 Windows PCs.

What you want to do is change the access controls of the Netware mount point to allow non-root users to write to them (or, even better) just to allow your user account to write to them. I'm not sure how to do that, but that's the area you need to be looking at.

Good advise! And just a tick more, please don't use root login or su to root while on line. Permissions to files and users can be adjusted in the command line shell/terminal

You can use the -u option to scpmount or in the fstab file to become the user of the share.

Or you could use the -g gid option and make certain users the group owners of the share.