I'm usually running FC2, but also have FC5, and FC6 on this machine. I have access to FC6's / directory from FC2, but some files, /boot/grub/grub.conf have a darned big padlock on them, so I can't even read them. I try to answer the odd question from the list, and just being able to post a few lines from a file is usefull.
Is there some sort of workaround to get access to these padlocked files? After all I'm not trying to write to them, just copy a few lines to Kmails composer.
Nigel.
Nigel Henry wrote:
I'm usually running FC2, but also have FC5, and FC6 on this machine. I have access to FC6's / directory from FC2, but some files, /boot/grub/grub.conf have a darned big padlock on them, so I can't even read them. I try to answer the odd question from the list, and just being able to post a few lines from a file is usefull. Is there some sort of workaround to get access to these padlocked files? After all I'm not trying to write to them, just copy a few lines to Kmails composer.
Have you tried reading these files as root?
On Sunday 29 April 2007 19:27, Vivek J. Patankar wrote:
Nigel Henry wrote:
I'm usually running FC2, but also have FC5, and FC6 on this machine. I have access to FC6's / directory from FC2, but some files, /boot/grub/grub.conf have a darned big padlock on them, so I can't even read them. I try to answer the odd question from the list, and just being able to post a few lines from a file is usefull. Is there some sort of workaround to get access to these padlocked files? After all I'm not trying to write to them, just copy a few lines to Kmails composer.
Have you tried reading these files as root?
-- Regards विवेक ज. पाटणकर (Vivek J. Patankar)
I'm not sure how to go about that. This is how I am set up. I have 5 Linux distros on this machine I have also 2 FAT partitions that I can read and write to, which I use for saving data to. These are accessable by means of a desktop from all 5 linux distros. Directories have been made in /mnt for them, and lines have been added to fstab so that are automounted at bootup.
Recently I installed FC6 on this machine, and thought I'd have a go at accessing the FC6 partitions from FC2. Did a mkdir /mnt/hdb8 (which is the / directory for FC6), and a mkdir /mnt/hdb9 (which is FC6's /home directory), then edited fstab for mounting these 2 ext3 filesystems at bootup.
So far so good, and with a desktop icon for hdb8, and hdb9, I can open both of these directories, and can read most of the contents. There are some files that are locked though. A few it /etc, the initrd ones in /boot, and the ones in /boot/grub. As I say. I don't want to write to these FC6 files from FC2, just highlight a few lines on FC6's /boot/grub/grub.conf, and be able to paste them into Kmails composer on FC2.
I'm a bit stuck on how to procede.
I don't know if this is possible, but any suggestions are welcome.
Nigel.
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 18:35 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote:
I'm usually running FC2, but also have FC5, and FC6 on this machine. I have access to FC6's / directory from FC2, but some files, /boot/grub/grub.conf have a darned big padlock on them, so I can't even read them. I try to answer the odd question from the list, and just being able to post a few lines from a file is usefull.
As pointed out by the other poster, those files require root access for reading (as well as writing). One reason being that they can contain passwords, or other data that must be keep secret from ordinary users.
To become root, type into a console: su - Then issue commands from that console (e.g. start up a text reader, in there).
On Monday 30 April 2007 09:44, Tim wrote:
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 18:35 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote:
I'm usually running FC2, but also have FC5, and FC6 on this machine. I have access to FC6's / directory from FC2, but some files, /boot/grub/grub.conf have a darned big padlock on them, so I can't even read them. I try to answer the odd question from the list, and just being able to post a few lines from a file is usefull.
As pointed out by the other poster, those files require root access for reading (as well as writing). One reason being that they can contain passwords, or other data that must be keep secret from ordinary users.
To become root, type into a console: su - Then issue commands from that console (e.g. start up a text reader, in there).
Apologies Tim, and Vivek. I've just re-read the reply I sent to Vivek, and think I must have been running in idiot mode when I wrote it.
I was so obsessed with that desktop icon that opened FC6's / directory in user mode, that I totally ignored the "do it as root" option on the CLI.
All the best.
Nigel.
-
Nigel Henry -
Tim -
Vivek J. Patankar