First reported to Edgar in Calif. a couple of days ago. I tried setting my user name password priveleges to be equivalent to SU or ROOT. It seemed to take but after about two days approx up time I tried logging in as my specific username, at the G U interface login screen ... It seemed to want to take but reverted back to the same login screen and after consistantly trying with my own login password I couldn't login with the GU login screen always coming back up. Trying other usernames, I had no problems get into the machine and trying ROOT no problem. Switching into console mode and logging into the machine with my username no problem. With Edgar's help we found that the system wouldn't let me log in as USER and my priveleges set up equivalent to ROOT (SU).. THEREFORE changed all my username priveleges back to non granted status; I am able to login as user. Please return all comments to: walterh1 You people have done an excellent job with Red Hat Linux keep up the good fight! Walter Haiworonsky Reformed and more the wise user.
I don't know who Edgar is, so I can't ask him for details... By default, we do not make linuxconf setuid root, and in that configuration, the priviledges have no effect. If that's not what you were doing, I'm sorry, but I can't quite follow what you are saying. I don't know what you mean by the "G U interface login screen", for example. If you are sure there is a bug here, you can re-open the bug, but please include more explicit instructions on how to recreate it (step by step) so that we understand what you are trying to do and can better answer...