Re: more important problem

[Wesley Leonard <marshall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeow!

Well, to let regular users mount the cdrom all you need to do is add the "user"
option to the cdrom line in /etc/fstab

As for your root problem...  ???

Trying typing "su -" instead of su root.  Also, did you log out completely (hit
CTRL-ALT-F1 to get toa  command line login)?  Trying logging in from the command
line.

Alan DeJong wrote:

> ,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

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