Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262349AbVBQRtM (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:49:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262342AbVBQRrz (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:47:55 -0500 Received: from relay1.tiscali.de ([62.26.116.129]:54487 "EHLO webmail.tiscali.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262348AbVBQRqi (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:46:38 -0500 Message-ID: <4214D878.7020804@tiscali.de> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 18:46:32 +0100 From: Matthias-Christian Ott User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050108) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Deepti Patel CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: References: <20050217171449.CDB483384C@ws7-3.us4.outblaze.com> In-Reply-To: <20050217171449.CDB483384C@ws7-3.us4.outblaze.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 664 Lines: 25 Deepti Patel wrote: >Hi >I am getting an error while inserting an hello world program. > >[deepti@marieke deepti]$ /sbin/insmod hello-2.ko >insmod: error inserting 'hello-2.ko': -1 Operation not permitted > >I haven't logged in as root. For inserting a module do I need to logged in as root? >I will really appretiate any suggestions. > >Thanks in advance > > > > > Jep you need to be root. Matthias-Christian Ott - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/