Access Permissions

R. David Whitlock ryandav at u.washington.edu
Tue Feb 8 18:53:00 PST 2000


I seem to recall VMWare _required_ the use of the root account.  

?

Have you checked the web page to make sure its possible to run it without
that ability?  Am I not understanding what your intentions are?



On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Cliff wrote:

> Well, you could change the ownership for /dev/hda tho I've never done
> that.  If you give your user account full access to the drive, why
> wouldn't it be better to just login as root.  I'm just curious why you
> didn't want to do that...
> 
> Cliff
> 
> 



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