Re: [orca-list] system admin

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Mohammed:

Unfortunately, doing things as the 'root' user is a very risky thing if 
you are not familiar with Linux.  You risk trashing your system (i.e., 
needing to reinstall it), opening it up to security risks, etc.  As 
such, if you do not know how to edit files yet, you may not be at the 
point where you should be doing things as the root user.

I wish there were currently a more automated/foolproof way to configure 
this stuff.  Right now, however, you need to have basic file editing 
skills and some level of Linux knowledge to do the work.  Ideally, your 
distribution would come with things already configured and ready to go, 
but it's not at the point yet.

Will

Mohammed Al-shar' wrote:
> hi list.
>  
> on the Orca page there are instructions to enable system administration 
> on hardy with Orca as follows:
>  
> "SYS ADMIN:
>
> 1) Create root's ~/.orbitrc file (/root/.orbitrc, with and owner.group 
> of root.root with a mode of 644 on my system):
>
>  ORBIIOPIPv4=1
> ORBIIOPUNIX=0
>
>  
>
> 2) Edit /etc/sudoers to add the following line after the line with 
> "env_reset" in it:
>
>  Defaults env_keep+="GTK_MODULES"
>
>  
>
> Everything else seems to have been taken care of by Luke and Ubuntu 
> (thanks Luke!), at least for my decrepit Toshiba Tecra M2 laptop. "
>  
> can anyone of you help me by rewriting this in a clear step by step 
> instructions? I don't know how to create a file yet, and I forgot how to 
> edit a file as root.
>  
> thanks.
> Mohammed Al-shar'
>
>
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