Messed it up already

[Chris Bondelid]

you need to use "su -" to switch to root.  

su [-] [user] is the syntax for sWITCH uSER.  The dash means run profile,
bashrc, cd to home directory, etc like you were logging in as the user.  No
dash, means just switch to this user dammit!  : )  No user specified means
su to root.


Chris


SysAdmin
University Mechanical

-----Original Message-----
From: Nate Birkholz [mailto:birkholz@visi.com]
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 1:08 PM
To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Subject: Re: Messed it up already 


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. 

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