Permissions Question

[Jeffrey A. McCright]

You could also add your user account to the root group. Not sure what
security issues that might open up.

Just a thought.

Thanks,

Jeff McCright

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
[mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of Seth Dimbert
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 9:22 AM
To: shawn at r1.scp.local; KCLUG (E-mail)
Subject: Permissions Question

OK - I know I'm missing something.

I got the Linux Box set up and know that I'm not supposed to use it as root.

So, I created a login for myself, then another with ownership of the web
directories.

But now the box is back with the other servers and I connect to it via
telnet and ftp. And now, since I want to install FrontPage Extensions, I
need to upload files to usr/local, which I can't do. Then, to run the
install script, I'll need to login as root, which I can't do via telnet.

What am I missing?

-SD