User privileges User privileges let you define co-administrators who will be allowed to do various tasks without knowing the root password. 11.. GGrraanntteedd A granted privilege is usable after the user has supplied his password. 22.. GGrraanntteedd//SSiilleenntt A "granted/silent" privilege is granted without further question. 33.. MMiinniimmaall pprriivviilleeggee The privilege "May use Linuxconf" is required to even access Linuxconf, so all co-administrator have this privilege. Note that this privilege by itself does not allow any changes, however. Furthermore, Linuxconf won't show any sensitive information to a normal user unless he has other privileges. To say it differently, a user with this privilege can't see anything he can't see using a simple unprivileged shell account. 44.. MMaannyy pprriivviilleeggeess Any Linuxconf component can define privilege, potentially on the fly. For example, the dialout module defines one's privileges for each dialout configuration. 55.. PPrrooppeerr iinnssttaallllaattiioonn To support privileges in text and graphical mode, Linuxconf must install as "setuid root." This is the normal installation but some distributions have chosen to ship Linuxconf without this attribute. You can enable the setuid bit, by doing: chown root.root /bin/linuxconf chmod 4755 /bin/linuxconf