On 06/05/2011 08:06 AM, naskie18 wrote:
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> My problem is, when I login to suse as anything other than root
sorry, i do not know much about ntfs so i’ll let someone with more
Windows experience help you there…
but, please do not log into Gnome or KDE as root…yes, i know that is
the way it is done on Windows, but this is not that…
you should never log into KDE/Gnome/XFCE or any other *nix-like system’s
graphical user interface desktop environment as root…
doing so 1) opens you up to several different security problems if you
(for example) browse the net, 2) too many too easy ways to damage your
system no matter how careful your actions (for example: well documented
cases of unintended change of ownership of ~/.ICEauthority and
~/.Xauthority from user to root sometimes occurs), 3) anyway logging
into KDE/etc as root is never required to do any and all
administrative duties, 4) and, not even logging in as root just to see
if it works as root is useful, because the “yes” or “no” learned is
almost always totally useless in finding the problem giving the
symptoms. however, logging in as root to learn the yes/no could the
cause of the next adverse symptom encountered.
so, always log in as yourself, and “become root” by using a root powered
application (like YaST, File Manager Superuser Mode) or using “su -”,
sudo, kdesu, or gnomesu in a terminal to launch whatever tool is needed
(like Kwrite to edit a config file)…read more on all that here:
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Login_as_root
http://tinyurl.com/ydbwssh
http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php?t=446115
http://tinyurl.com/4nsaqst
http://tinyurl.com/6ry6yd
http://tinyurl.com/DD-on-Root
additionally: after logging into KDE/Gnome/etc as root, if you
experience problems (for example, with uncommanded file ownership and
permissions changes) and if you can provide us with details of what you
were doing while you were logged in as root, that would help us identify
if there’s a bug that needs to be fixed…thanks for your help…
> When I’m logged in as root and try to
> change the permissions, either by changing the group permissions to
> include write, or changing the owner to the “users” group, nothing
> happens. The computer acts like it’s making the changes, but when I go
> back and look at it, the permissions haven’t changed.
the reason for that is (i think) that NTFS has no way to store the
permissions information you are giving it from Linux…so, you tell to
change and it FAILS to do so, without giving an error…it is like it
never sees the command (i guess because it doesn’t know what to do with
a “change user group to ______” because it has NO user group in its file
system…
my policy is to NOT write to Windows from Linux, nor from Windows to
Linux…well, the latter is impossible as Windows refuses to even see
linux file systems–thank you Mr. Bill!!
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