I purchased a NOOBS SD card with pidora 18 preinstalled. During installation of pidora, I went with the default setting of adding the user account to admin group. However, I had no group privileges. I could not open Disk Management. Nor could I read the /var/logs. Most of the /var/logs were an unknown file type. File permissions are root: read and write. group and other: none. Are these fedora's default file permissions?
I logged into pidora's desktop as user to read /var/logs. I copied some of the /var/logs to my home directory. I created a plain text file of my notes of the /var/logs. I logged back in as user. User did not have the file permissions to edit and save these files. File permissions were root: read and write. Group and other: read only.
Menu > Administration > users and groups > doesn't come up
I opened a terminal and entered: "sudo usermod -G adm user". However, file permissions didn't change.
/var/log/secure showed that though my user account was added to group admin, my account was deleted from group wheel and dialout and shadow group wheel and dialout:
Jun 18 18:50:40 raspi usermod[1191]: add 'user' to group 'adm'
Jun 18 18:50:40 raspi usermod[1191]: delete 'user' from group 'wheel'
Jun 18 18:50:41 raspi usermod[1191]: delete 'user' from group 'dialout'
Jun 18 18:50:41 raspi usermod[1191]: add 'user' to shadow group 'adm'
Jun 18 18:50:41 raspi usermod[1191]: delete 'user' from shadow group 'wheel'
Jun 18 18:50:41 raspi usermod[1191]: delete 'user' from shadow group 'dialout'
Does fedora do this by default? What privileges does adding user to group admin grant when user is deleted to wheel and dialout.
I logged in as root. Menu > Administration > users and groups > still did not come up
/root/install.log.syslog detected the following groups: jackuser, utmp, utempter, avahi-autoipd, cdrom, tape, dialout, floppy, dbus, polkitd, ssh_keys, rtkit, openvpn, lightdm, saslauth, avahi, usbmuxd, gdm, mailnull, smmsp, pulse, pulse-access, sshd, ntp, chrony, slocate and tcpdump.
Were all these groups added by default?
/ks-log-info is a post-installation file configuration. In addition to the groups in the /etc/group and /etc/gshadow that /root/install.logsyslog lists, /ks-log-info lists additional groups in /etc/group and /etc/gshadow: root, bin, daemon, sys, adm, tty, disk, lp, mem, kmem, wheel, mail, uucp, man, games, gopher, video, dip, ftp, lock, audio, nobody, users, jackuser, utmp, utempter, avahi-autoipd, cdrom, tape, dialout, floppy, dbus, polkitd, ssh_keys, rtkit, openvpn, lightdm, saslauth, avahi, usbmuxd, gdm, mailnull, smmsp, pulse, pulse-access, sshd, chrony, slocate and tcpdump.
These are a great many groups. Were all these groups added by default?
While logged in as user, I did not have the file permissions to view the root directory.
While logged in as user, I inserted a SD card into an USB Digital Intelligence forensic card reader write blocker. This write blocker write protects SD cards. My write blocker and SD card neither appeared on the desktop nor in /media/ directory. I went to menu > settings > removabled drives and media > checked box mount removable media when inserted and checked box auto-open files on new drives and media. However, my SD card and blocker still neither appeared, mounted nor opened.
I logged in as root. I went to menu > settings > removable drives and media > checked box mount removable media when inserted and checked box auto-open files on new drives and media. My SD card appeared on the desktop. However, it did not mount or open. I right clicked and selected mount. My SD card then appeared in /media/ directory. I right clicked on my SD card on the desktop and selected open. My SD card opened.
I copied some of my personal files from a SD card to /home/documents. I also created plain text files. I rebooted. I logged in as user. User cannot edit and save these files. File permissions are root: read and write. Group and other: read only.
I logged in as root. I changed the file permissions in Thunar file manager's menu > edit > properties > permissions.
However, all new files I create as root have file permissions of root: read and write. Group and other: none. Is this default file permissions? How to change the file permissions of future files?
I logged back in as user. My Digital Intelligence SD card write blocker appeared on desktop and auto-opened. Later, I clicked on my SD card icon on desktop to reopen it. Error message: "Failed to mount. Not authorized to perform operation."
I log in as root. I insert micro SD cards into my USB Sandisk memory card reader. The file permissions of most of my SD cards are:
root: read and write. Group root: none Other: none.
I right click on SD card > Properties > permissions. I cannot change the file permissions of the folders and files on my SD cards. This forces me to perpetually log in as root to have the file permissions of read and write.
As root, I try to edit the folders and files on my micro SD cards which are in my USB Sandisk memory card reader. I have three Sandisk card readers. The card readers function fine. I edit my folders and files on my SD cards. The edits appear that they are saved. After ejecting and remounting my micro SD cards, the edits were not saved.
File manager in Pidora arranged the files on my SD cards in reverse alphabetical order and reverse numeric order. There is no option in file manager to change to regular alphabetical order. Reverse alphabetical order makes it difficult to find files.
The search option in file manager in pidora is missing.