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okay heres the deal, i was trying to change the permissions on my user account "alan" while i was in root, so i could mount my cdrom drive.  ( i have no idea what i'm doing, i am reading the book as i go)  and when i logged out of root, and into alan, i found i sill coudlnt do it.  then i tried to log into root, with no success...  so i tried "su root" (thats what it said in the book) and it said "user root does not exist"  and i was going to add another user, maybe add root back in, and i cant do it unless i am root...  please help!!   
 
-alan