normanp
January 20th, 2009, 10:38 AM
I am not clear about the status of users in 8.10:
There is a root user but this cannot be enabled to allow login as root as far as I can see. I don't like this as it seems that there is no way to get out of situations as below.
The user created at install seems to be an administrator but when I log in as that user and go to 'Users Settings', create another user called admin, gave it an Administrator profile, then logged on as admin - I found that this user was not allowed access to 'Users settings' - so I assume admin is not really an administrator - so maybe my original user wasn't either!
I now logged in again as my original user, went to 'Users Settings' but could not now unlock it - I get a message 'Could not Authenticate - an unexpected error has occurred' - a rather enigmatic message!
A further mystery is the list of users that drop down top right on the screen - when you choose one and log in does it log off the previous user or not?
This is all confusing - on another machine I managed to remove administrator rights from all users except root and now cannot change any settings (even at the command line).
Finally - using the Authorisations application seems a problem: attempts to use Grant... anywhere are simply ineffective - no message pops up at all!
Thanks for any help.
There is a root user but this cannot be enabled to allow login as root as far as I can see. I don't like this as it seems that there is no way to get out of situations as below.
The user created at install seems to be an administrator but when I log in as that user and go to 'Users Settings', create another user called admin, gave it an Administrator profile, then logged on as admin - I found that this user was not allowed access to 'Users settings' - so I assume admin is not really an administrator - so maybe my original user wasn't either!
I now logged in again as my original user, went to 'Users Settings' but could not now unlock it - I get a message 'Could not Authenticate - an unexpected error has occurred' - a rather enigmatic message!
A further mystery is the list of users that drop down top right on the screen - when you choose one and log in does it log off the previous user or not?
This is all confusing - on another machine I managed to remove administrator rights from all users except root and now cannot change any settings (even at the command line).
Finally - using the Authorisations application seems a problem: attempts to use Grant... anywhere are simply ineffective - no message pops up at all!
Thanks for any help.