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Old 05-05-2008, 01:02 AM
ashtar5 ashtar5 is offline
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Doh. Alright, thanks.

I have some questions about users and groups. What's the best / most secure way of setting up your users under BT linux? So far, I've added a user with adduser and logged in successfully. The kde menu is totally different though, so that would be my first question: How do I get my non root user account's kde desktop to be the same as root's? Second question... Once logged in as a non root user, I am unable to run commands as root using sudo; ie sudo shutdown --now . I get prompted for a password, I enter my root pw, but it's not accepted. What am I doing wrong? Third, fourth and fifth questions: When examining the passwd and group files in /etc, there are all sorts of entries I don't understand. For example, what are the operator and nobody users used for? To which group should I be assigned? I am in the group users, what would be a scenario in which I would need to create a user under the group ftp, nogroup, pop, etc?
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