From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 31 23:01:45 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2EC2106564A for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:01:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@esperance-linux.co.uk) Received: from mailout.zetnet.co.uk (mailout.zetnet.co.uk [194.247.47.231]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87ACA8FC1A for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:01:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@esperance-linux.co.uk) Received: from irwell.zetnet.co.uk ([194.247.47.48] helo=zetnet.co.uk) by mailout.zetnet.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JgT0W-0004X8-Uw; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:01:40 +0100 Received: from melon.esperance-linux.co.uk (54-144.adsl.zetnet.co.uk [194.247.54.144]) by zetnet.co.uk (8.14.1/8.14.1/Debian-9) with ESMTP id m2VN1ejY001602; Tue, 1 Apr 2008 00:01:40 +0100 Received: by melon.esperance-linux.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 37D01FCA4BA; Tue, 1 Apr 2008 00:01:35 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 00:01:35 +0100 From: Frank Shute To: Sisantha Godawela-Ohle Message-ID: <20080331230135.GA9474@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Sisantha Godawela-Ohle , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Questions References: <547967842@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <547967842@web.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Face: *}~{PHnDTzvXPe'wl_-f%!@+r5; VLhb':*DsX%wEOPg\fDrXWQJf|2\,92"DdS%63t*BHDyQ|OWo@Gfjcd72eaN!4%NE{0]p)ihQ1MyFNtWL X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE i386 X-Organisation: 'Esperance Linux' X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (zetnet.co.uk [194.247.46.1]); Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:01:40 +0100 (BST) Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Permissions problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Frank Shute List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:01:46 -0000 On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 04:22:51AM +0200, Sisantha Godawela-Ohle wrote: > > Hi all, > > iŽm following this freeBSD chat for a long time and i also wish to > submit a question regarding a FreeBSD Version 7.0, which i installed > yesterday. After logging in as root, i started with startx and > Gnome and KDE3. > From there i wanted to configure Network, DNS etc., but it(System > popup) says, that i donŽt have rights to configure as there is no > permisions for that;-( , although directly logged as ROOT! > But this problem does not arises with the FreeBSD 6.2, which iŽm > running for a more than a year!!. > > What should do i do? > > I appreciate for an positive solution. > > > Best Regards, Sisantha, You wrote to the wrong list. chat@ is just for general chat about FreeBSD. Specific questions about using FreeBSD should be addressed to questions@, hence I've cc'd this reply there. Another couple of points; if you're using the digest, snip the previous stuff, we've seen it already. Also set an appropriate subject field for your question. As for your question, I think you are trying to configure your system from KDE or Gnome and there's probably some sort of permissions problem that I'm not familiar with since I don't use either. Or are you running X as root? If so, don't, run it as an ordinary user and su to root after you've started X. Try configuring your network etc. as root from the console following the instructions in the handbook. If that doesn't work then your security level is probably set to something inappropriate and you'll need to change it. Look at the manpage security(7). -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html