Donald Posted May 20, 2005 Report Share Posted May 20, 2005 I'm running Mandriva Limited Edition 2005. I had a problem with not being able to log in as user (but could as root). I found a way to to put this right - by giving user read and write permissions for the file /dev/null. My problem now is that when I log off and reboot my computer the permissions have gone back to their default and user cannot login. So every time I have to log in as root, change the permissions and then log in a new session as user. How can I change the permissions permanently so they stay as user read and write for /dev/null? Don Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted May 21, 2005 Report Share Posted May 21, 2005 Ironically, 'installing Mandrake' was probably the right topic for this, spiny :) I'm about 90% sure you updated from a pre-10.1 MDK to 10.1 or 2005, right? If so, it's likely you weren't correctly switched from devfs to udev. Edit the file /etc/lilo.conf and change any instance of 'devfs=mount' to 'devfs=nomount'. Save. Run 'lilo' as root. Ensure the udev package is installed and the udev service is enabled. Reboot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donald Posted May 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 21, 2005 Many thanks. This solved the problem. I installed 2005 over 10.1 but as a fresh install. I'musing the SuSE grub boot loader (also have SuSE 9.1 on the computer) and had simply kept the Mandrake parameters in Grub that I had been using for 10.1. Now I just have to work out how to get the KDM log in screen to work properly - but I'll start a new thread for that. Don Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinynorman Posted May 21, 2005 Report Share Posted May 21, 2005 Ironically, 'installing Mandrake' was probably the right topic for this, spiny :)<{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thanks, Adam. I've moved it back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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