Sudo Access

Sudo allows you to run root commands as yourself. It's nice to have. You can manually specify what commands the user is allowed to execute, or you can use the keyword 'ALL'.

As root, edit /etc/sudoers

Search for the line that looks like :

 root     ALL=(ALL)         ALL

and copy it for all users who should have that privilege :

 root     ALL=(ALL)         ALL
 kevin    ALL=(ALL)         ALL

NTFS

To read/write files on windows partitions, you should make sure that ntfs-3g is installed. If you want them to auto-mount at startup, you'll need to edit /etc/fstab, and you can use ntfs-3g as a type for mount. Examples below. Do NOT use ntfs as that provides read-only access.

Make sure the module is installed :

 sudo yum -y install ntfs-3g

Test that you can mount the drive. Because windows doesn't have ingrained file permissions, you'll have to mount it "as a user" if you want to be able to write to it:

 sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda5 ~/windows
 sudo mount -t ntfs-3g -o uid=kevin /dev/sda1 ~/hdmedia

Update fstab to automount it

 sudo vi /etc/fstab

 /dev/sda5               /windows                ntfs-3g defaults        0 0
 /dev/sda1               /hdmedia                ntfs-3g uid=kevin       0 0

Initial

Sudo Access

NTFS