[CLUE-Tech] Poor Man's Ghost

Match Grun match at dimensional.com
Fri Jun 13 22:56:59 MDT 2003


The root account on Knoppix is deliberately crippled. This is a security
feature to prevent people hacking into root accounts on other installed
OS's on the computer that you are booting.

Read the documentation on the Knoppix CD and website for more info.

Match

On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 08:16:03 -0600
Joe Linux <joelinux at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Do you know who to use the Knoppix CD to manage your existing "root" 
> file system.  I would like to do this with a graphical file manager,
> but I can't seem to get it to work.  I have tried <ALT>+<F2> and
> typing in a root pass word, and then  switching back and launching
> kdesu konqueror, but I still can't write to my existing systems "root"
> files.
> 
> David Willson wrote:
> 
> >parted is no longer part of the KNOPPIX CD.  I found that very
> >annoying, until I found the replacement, qtparted.  Two words: nice.
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> 
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