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ok that worked and how do you change the user's pesmission. For instance i want to make users to have admin previledges
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ok that worked and how do you change the user's pesmission. For instance i want to make users to have admin previledges

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you can make give the normal user write /execute permission in all directories and programs neede <br />
but it is &nbsp;&quot;NOT ADVISABLE&quot; &nbsp;as when you have such privilege you can potentially destroy the system for example <br />
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doing and &quot;rm -rf *&quot; while you are on the '/' directory and you thought you were somewhere else..<br />
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hence it is good to let only the root have these privilege<br />
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you can &quot;su&quot; to root whenever you want to do install etc and be back as normal user for other things <br />
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you can make give the normal user write /execute permission in all directories and programs neede
but it is  "NOT ADVISABLE"  as when you have such privilege you can potentially destroy the system for example

doing and "rm -rf *" while you are on the '/' directory and you thought you were somewhere else..

hence it is good to let only the root have these privilege

you can "su" to root whenever you want to do install etc and be back as normal user for other things





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i did this.. It works fine now..<br />
Thanks
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I have windows background and just installed linux. I have &nbsp;some hard time understanding the envirement here. For some reason, i am logging as a user but i dont have enough permission to install new applications that is why i need to log in as admin and to change my permission. How could i do this? <br />
Thanks in advance...
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I have windows background and just installed linux. I have  some hard time understanding the envirement here. For some reason, i am logging as a user but i dont have enough permission to install new applications that is why i need to log in as admin and to change my permission. How could i do this? 
Thanks in advance...

log in as a admin in red hat 8?

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