[PLUG] Stupid newbie file permisions question

[Vram]

John Jason Jordan wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 21:34 -0700, Jason R. Martin wrote:
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>>>On this Linux machine I am root and I am also jjj. I just spent the past
>>>hour and a half reading about ACLs, but none of it made any sense to me.
>>>Plus finals are coming up in three weeks and I'm running out of time.
>>>How can I give jjj permanent root permission?
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>>The *NIX Way is fundamentally different than the Redmond way, and it's 
>>not easy to change over.  Hang in there while you learn it!
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>OK, permission for the device sounds like it will solve the problem. I'm
>going to have to tackle that later, however. Right now I just logged out
>and back in again as root so I could see that the backup I made last
>night was intact. I was trying to make another backup this morning when
>the machine locked up. I restarted it and when it started up it
>complained that the file system on the external USB drive (FAT32) was
>corrupt and needed to be fixed. Scary, considering that the previous
>full backup I have is two weeks old, with incrementals until a week ago
>when I didn't realize the tape was full. Plus, those were to tape, and
>my tape drive is dead.
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>I am sorry if I sounded short here tonight. It's been a bitch of a day.
>Just the time I'll have to spend putting my Windows 2000 computer back
>together is bad enough, but the thought of losing a couple weeks work
>has had me on edge all day. I have classes all day tomorrow and I
>haven't done all the reading I was supposed to either. 
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>Also, I tend to object when people assume that Windows users are stupid.
>OK, maybe I am. I'm trying to learn Linux, but it's going to take me a
>long time. In the meantime I'm going to have to take some risks. I'll
>probably shoot myself in the foot a few times too. But if you never take
>the first step, then you never get anywhere. Also, it does not further
>the Linux movement to think non-Linux users are dumb. Makes us dumb
>people get all defensive.
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>In the meantime, I completed finally the download of the full Mandriva
>2005 Limited Edition DVD .x86_64. With luck I'll have it installed
>before the Clinic meeting this Saturday. With even more luck the video
>will finally be right and everything will work. Keep your fingers
>crossed for me.
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>Now I'm going to go for a short run and crash. You guys are great.
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Please check you time??????