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bob_napalm
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 Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 8:50 pm Post subject: Permission problem |
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Hi all,
I've been installing gentoo on a laptop for my mate and I have run into some strange problems which I cant fix...Ill give the others a bit more work and pop back if I can't fix them but one of the problems that I have no idea about is a permission problem.
As a regular user I cant perform some basic functions in the terminal. Heres an example:
| Quote: | amjad@localhost ~ $ cd /
amjad@localhost / $ ls
ls: .: Permission denied
amjad@localhost / $
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When I installed gentoo on my laptop and pc I never encountered this problem...I used the stage3 install on the 2005.1 cd.
Anyone know which configs I need to post so someone can see whats up becuase I have no idea.
I thought the problem might be gdm becuase it wasn't starting up before and giving me some strange error...but if I kill X and gdm and try the same in the console it comes out the same as above.
So basically as a regular user you are stuck in your home directory and cannot view any other directory in / which is annoying as some programs can not run unless I run them as root.
Any help appreciated  |
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alienjon
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| Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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| sounds like the user isn't a part of the appropriate groups (just a guess) but I'm not sure which groups you'd want to have added for your user, I'm afraid. The gentoo HOWTO should give answers to that, though. |
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bob_napalm
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| Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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well I added the user using the howto in the gentoo documentation.
| Quote: | | useradd -m -G users,wheel,audio,games -s /bin/bash amjad |
but still no workies  |
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pjp
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| Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 5:37 am Post subject: |
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Moved from Installing Gentoo
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