Re: secondary root account
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 12:15:53PM -0500, Errol Neal wrote: > I would like to know how to setup a secondary account on a Linux system > that would have the same abilities and privledges as the "root" user, say > an account such as "root2". I do not want to use sudo, because the people I > work for do not want to use "sudo" before every command. Does anybody have > any suggestions? If your only problem with sudo is that people will have to type is before every command, you could use sudo -s (or sudo bash or whatever) - that way people will get a root shell. They will remain 'as root' until they quit that shell. Or perhaps allow su? Regards, -- Stephanie Boyd http://www.ixtab.org.uk/slb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Testing/unstable system: keyboard freeze in X on reboot
First post for a while - only recently resubscribed, so here goes: My main box has been running testing for some time, with the odd thing pulled in from unstable. Before shutting it down for the weekend it had been up for a month without incident. Upon return the gdm logon screen would accept no keyboard input, although the mouse continued to function. I was also unable to switch between virtual consoles. When I killed gdm remotely, the keyboard worked fine on the command line. Also, when I killed gdm, my attempts at typing in the login box had appeared on the previously active console. Here's what I've tried: - checked XF86Config-4. This has not been altered for several months and was working fine. - attached another keyboard. Same behaviour as before. - checked that installation of gdm is up to date. - updated glibc to 2.3.1-10 (was runnning 2.3.1-5, so thought I'd upgrade given recent problems). Running gdm 2.2.5.5-2 gnome 1.4 xfree86-server 4.2.1-4 generic ps/2 "windows" keyboard 2.4.18 kernel Unfortunately I'd failed to get apt-listchanges to mail me, so I'm not entirely certain what's been installed in the last month (won't do that again). Any suggestions much appreciated, Stephanie -- Stephanie Boyd http://www.ixtab.org.uk/slb "Gentlemen! You can't fight in here, this is the War Room!" President Merkin Muffley, Dr. Strangelove msg26881/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ntpd not keeping time
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 02:50:00PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all. I've got this weird problem with ntpd. Up until now I've never > had ntpd fail me. But on this one box I've got the clock speeding up by 30 > minutes each day. I've got ntpd installed and configured properly with > working ntp servers. In fact, ntpdate sets the clock properly, but ntpd is > failing to keep the clock in sync with the ntp servers. > > I've tried purging ntp & ntp-simple and reinstalling, but that didn't > help. There are no errors in any logs in /var/log. Any ideas or > suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. I'm not a hugely experienced user, so I could be way off the mark here, but this reminded me of a problem we had at home a short while ago with a new machine: Basically ntp was setting the time correctly, but the drift was far too large for it to keep up with (over 1 second per minute in our case). In order to solve this, we had to use the adjtimex utility to configure the kernel to expect the actual rate that our system clock was advancing, rather than the default. ( Apparently this is because the master crystal is often uncalibrated, so the clock was advancing at the wrong rate.) After doing this ntp was able to catch up (although adjtimex had to be set to run on every boot, as the change is not permanent). Obviously if it's not a new box I'm seriously far off the mark ;) Regards, Steph -- Stephanie Boyd http://www.ixtab.org.uk/slb "The best Windows accelerator is that which works at 9.81m/s2 " -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
