gentoo go good

[David Reynolds]

On Tuesday 29 April 2003 08:30 pm, Eric Rossiter proclaimed:
> Hey everyone,
>
> Gentoo is slick, man... been slowly getting acclimated and I have a few
> questions, if I may.

I've got a friend who was 'given' gentoo by her ex, but either I am not as 
smart as I think I am, or she has been severely crippled.

Her ex did not give her a root password. Hence, she cannot do things like 
change the time, emerge/update programs, or a host of other things I do 
regularly on my system. Now he's shipped out and she has no access to him for 
a month plus. When she types 'groups', she gets only 'users'; my account on 
my computer on the other hand has about a dozen groups I am member of. Which 
is to be expected?

> As a normal user, I can't start gdm or kdm, tells me only root wants to
> do that.  I tried the fix suggested in the gentoo forums to no avail.
> Any other ideas?

Where are these forums please? And would they be ANY help to a person just 
starting off of Windows? I feel bad that I am about to send her back to 
Windows, but I did suggest trying something like Mandrake or RedHat.

> Thanks for your time.
>
> E

Hope I'm not intruding on your thread,
David

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