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Topic: Emelfm Trouble, I can't get emelfm to do its job

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Josiah

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Posted: Aug. 07 2006,23:09

Hi all, I have backup restore configured to write to a HD partition hda3 (frugal lilo install, now changed to a grub install). It works for all default settings. However, I need a persistent root password. I tried to add /etc/shadow to filetool (as root of course) but emelfm simply displayed "end of output" and failed to add the file to filetool.

Also, i tried to use emelfm to edit /etc/lilo.conf by right clicking on it and clicking "view" in beaver, but I was not able to toggle off readonly mode in beaver.

It's as though emelfm doesn't recoginze me as being root. What is causing this?

rockets

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Posted: Aug. 07 2006,23:50

Did you open emelfm as root? rt clk icon and go.

mikshaw

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Posted: Aug. 08 2006,03:49

You don't need to be root to set up your backups, and you *shouldn't* be root in most cases.

The backup/restore system has been designed to be easy for user dsl to enable it and to add/remove files to filetool.lst (the file is owned by dsl and resides in his home directory).

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