Re: Unable To Update.....

["eoconnor25@xxxxxxxxx" <eoconnor25@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well I'm ALMOST sure my acct is root....I don't remember creating a different username/acct when I first installed Fedora. And when I install software and I get prompted for a password....the same one that logs me in also gets me past authentication.....bit there have been times when I'm in terminal....where I'm not permitted to do something...and the response I get is the system telling me that I need to "be" root.....so I dunno....how can I be a root acct when I have no permissions...?

Sent from Eddie's Cell Phone

----- Reply message -----
From: "Ed Greshko" <Ed.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Unable To Update.....
Date: Wed, Aug 1, 2012 6:03 am


On 08/01/2012 05:06 PM, Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I wrote:
> I tried Ed, but it's saying I don't have permissions......now I know this is ill advised, but when I first installed F16 I did the unthinkable and made my USER account the ROOT account, so I don't see how that's possible.....hmmm.......lloks like I'll be upgrading a bit sooner than I thought then?.....need to get an external 500GB drive....transfer
>

You've successfully weirded your system.  Doing what you did is like walking around with a loaded gun in your hand, with the safety off, and your finger on the trigger.

Don't know why you can't delete those files if your user is truly root.

You could always boot a Fedora DVD and go into "rescue" mode and delete files from there.

If I were in your shoes I would forget about clamav and just backup all data and install F17 from scratch.  And when you install clamav, I'd do it from the Fedora repos and not download and compile from source like I think you were doing.

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