Messed it up already

[Joe Villari]

Nate Birkholz wrote:
> 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. 

At the command prompt just type su and hit enter. You will then be 
prompted for the root pass word.

[joev@localhost joev]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost joev]#


Joe