Assalam Alikum,

I have installed RedHAT 9.0 on my box, but while doing, I did not find the Add user screen on the window in which we define the root password. In fact not in any other place?
I had to do this from within the root acount, is this a new trick in this version?

Also, I did not find the file manager in the su mode, where is it?

Werner

me too noticed this too

i thought i have missed it due my great need to sleep while installing the system
but it seems that the problem from the Dist not from me :D

If you have installed the firstboot package while installing Linux, you will get through the process of testing your system settings and adding the new users after the first reboot.
I think it should be installed by default.

Regards
Mohamed Eldesoky

How are you all?
Well, I am still having these bizzare behaviour from RedHAT 9.0.
I am useing KDE and I have been trying so many times to initiate the file manager in the super user mode ( the file manager that allows you to write to the vfat partition) but whenever I press on the button, I get the enter your root password message, then the window starts and closes after few seconds, I get no chance to do anything with it.
What should I do?
And why does it behave like this?

thank you.

If you do update from previous version to RHL 9.0 you will not be asked for the root password.

Anaconda (RH Installer) will keep the existing root password. If you do fresh install you will have to have that screen asking you for the root password and if you wish to add another user.

There is something called "firstboot" (script which call another python script) which is ment to configure and register to RHN the system on its firstboot.

Firstboot Script will do:

1- Run /usr/bin/redhat-config-xfree86
2- Run "/usr/sbin/firstboot --reconfig" which
just call the python script with the arg --reconfig


The python script is /usr/share/firstboot/firstboot.py

which will get you through the basic configuration, check the firstboot.py for more information.

This is to answer your question about the root password. I do not know what are you looking for regarding the file manager. Please post the application name or the full path of the tool you are trying to run and it fails.

yes i remember that i noticed that when i were installing


but after installing the thing u r talking about i add the users and installed the documents too and it was nice but i don`t know why they didn`t put these tasks in the installation ?

All I am facing now is that I can't run the file manager in the su mode.
From The kiker icon-> system tools-> file manager (SU mode)

It opens for 3 seconds then closes. I tried to initiate it from the console;
$ su
$ password

#konquror
again, it open for 3 seconds, then vanishes.

What is it?

Werner

i wish there is something like that in GNOME

i want to use nutilus for some time instead of mc ;)

Originally posted by Heisenberg
All I am facing now is that I can't run the file manager in the su mode.
From The kiker icon-> system tools-> file manager (SU mode)

It opens for 3 seconds then closes. I tried to initiate it from the console;
$ su
$ password

#konquror
again, it open for 3 seconds, then vanishes.

What is it?

Werner

I used gnome briefly, a long time ago. A lot of gnome apps seem to subscribe to the Root Fascist Party, meaning that they declare themselves security risks and refuse to run as root. For example, the default bluefish behavior is to refuse to run as root; you have to supply a command line switch to get around this.

Yes, this is annoying.

And then there was also Mandrake with the RED desktop you got when you logged in as root. Blah. Bollocks.

So, that might be the problem with your app.

And then again, it might not be :-)

Any error msgs you are getting when it fails ? check /var/log/messages, if there is no errors run it with "strace" to see any obvious syscalls failing.

[root@localhost phd1]# konqueror
mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, overriding
/tmp/mcop-phd1 is not owned by user
[root@localhost phd1]#

This is the message I get when I tried to initiate the konqueror from a terminal
What should I do?

Werner

Your case is not reproducable here. I tried it but it is working fine at my end.

Did you delete /tmp/* by any chance ?

Is restarting X. Log out. Restart X, and log in, solve the problem ? I think that this will recreate the required files in /tmp..

Delet the file /tmp/mcop-phd1 and try again.

this was my problem:

I am useing KDE and I have been trying so many times to initiate the file manager in the super user mode ( the file manager that allows you to write to the vfat partition) but whenever I press on the button, I get the enter your root password message, then the window starts and closes after few seconds, I get no chance to do anything with it.
What should I do?

and the solution came as follows;

I added the user to the group owned by the roor, or was it the inverse, and the file manager in the su mode now stands and serves fine.

Thank you.

Werner

Thats add the user to gain access, work-around not a root cause solution. Thr problem is that the file is not owned by the user.

As long as it works for you it is ok :)

Though I did not get you, but Thank you! ;)

But as it works now, I am happy with MY WORK AROUND
Now I can add, delete and create new files and directories to my win partition.
by the way, if it is not for internet, I would have wiped windows from my PC.
but why a new modem while I am writeing yu now what I want.

Werner

Long live RedHaT....(in fact Long Live Open Sources)

doctor try editing ur fstab

i added the umask=0 and user to the vfat lines and it is working perfect

i think thats easier and safer than granting normal user root power - this what i understand of what u have done -

send me your fstab file

werner

currently mine is not available sorry

but just in the options coulmn put user,iocharset=utf8,umask=0

check the spell and the rest of option in any other posted fstab

Just for the record, the driver for pcnet32, and on-board ethernet controller, is broke in Redhat 9.0. However, this is not redfat specific, its merily because its using the 2.4.20 kernel.

To hell with buggy drivers. ('Gone are the days when men were men and coded their own device drivers', Torvalds)