Messed it up already

[Nate Birkholz]

On 4/4/03 2:51 PM, "Dan Willson" <Dan.Willson@VPUADV.UAB.EDU> wrote:

> On Friday, April 4, 2003 at 2:29 PM CST,
> Nate Birkholz <birkholz@visi.com> wrote:
> <snip>
> If I use "sudo", the password is not accepted because I have not
> been set up as a root user ....
> and the root password I specified at installation is useless at the
> command line. Of course, I cannot add nate to the sudoers file of
> course because it is write protected.
> </snip>
> 
> Instead of sudo, use su in this situation ... it will ask for the root
> password and then it will transform you into the root user until you
> type "exit" and then you'll be returned to your regular user account.
> 
> I have a Wallstreet G3/266 with the 14.1" display and XFree 4.2.0
> has me in the same predicament (I want 1024x768 at millions of
> colors, but I can't find any useful tips that resolve the situation.
> 
> Dan Willson


Thanks very much for the help.

If I do

 su nate

and enter the password, I get

  su(pam_unix)[407]: session opened for user nate by nate (uid=500)
  bash: no job control in this shell

and still can effect no change on any files.