The K Desktop Environment

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2. Tip: Letting non-root users use KBootSelector

If you to allow non-root users to use KBootSelector, you can do that by creating a new group `lilousers' in /etc/group. Add all the users that may use KBootSelector to this group. Then change the group of the lilo executable and the boot map file to `lilousers'. When you have done this, the users in `lilousers' will be able to select a next boot option. However, they cannot find out which next boot option is currently selected. To solve that, change the group of the boot device to `lilousers' as well. With the boot device, I mean the device that is the value of the ``boot = ...'' line in /etc/lilo.conf (e.g. /dev/hda).

You don't have to do anything special with the permissions and ownerships of the KBootSelector executable, because it calls Lilo to do what is needed.

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