Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 13:33:11 +0100 From: Richard Bradley <rtb27@cam.ac.uk> To: killermink@hotmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Permissions and other questions.. Message-ID: <200404291333.11890.rtb27@cam.ac.uk>
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> These may be immensly stupid questions, but here goes anyway, I have put > them all into one mail as I don't think they singularily deserve a whole > mail... I don't know about stupid - these are quite sensible questions. Lazy perhaps -- most of these can be answered by google (or by experimentation). > 1) Is it desirable and how do you enable certain processes to be run in a > user account? You can use `su` as root - in fact you can su into any account without using a password, such is the power of root ;-) > Here is why, I am the only user of my machine and while I realise the > importance of root, if i want to mount a cd I always have to su. This is > the same for other processes such as ifconfig. As the only user I don't > want to have to su all the time to do simple things, and as not being used > to it, I sometimes forget I have done so and do things undesirable (e.,g. > startx as root). How often do you need to run ifconfig? If you manage to get automount working (see below) you should have no excuse not to run as a normal user > 2) Is there a way to automount? Like when I put in a CD or attach my USB > drive.. as they have the same command each time. umm - I'm not going to answer this one. The simple answer is that the very first result for a google search on "automount freebsd" gives a detailed tutorial on how to set this up on a FreeBSD box. Searching is quicker than waiting for email replies, you know. > 3) Is it possible to have the command prompt tell you what directory you are > in before the symbol? Again, the first result on google for "change prompt string csh" is a long tutorial on changing the title bar of xterms or something. Anyway, I skimmed through it and to get you started, at your console, type: alias precmd 'echo -n "$cwd"' You should be able to customise this to suit your own needs. > 4) Is there a way in XFCE to create a launcher for OpenOffice? I understand > it needs to be run with ./soffice but this doesn't work even tho I have > added the directory to my PATH I don't even know what XFCE is, so try Google for this one, or wait for someone on the mailing list to try Google for you ;-) > Thanks for the advice... Have fun! Rich
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