Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3767 mails)

[Fergus Wilde <fwilde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 09 February 2006 16:48, Per Kustemo wrote:
> On 2/9/06, Ken Schneider <suse-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 12:47 +0100, Per Kustemo wrote:
> > > What is the crrect way to install updates on already installed program.
> > > I updated the Azureus today and as a common user I have no right to
> > > update that program.
> > > The update function in the program works fine an downloads the update
> > > to the tmp dir but when it tries to update it fails, cause of my
> > > rights in the filesystem of course.
> > > My question is.
> > > Is there a way to like in windows to "run as" admin or in this case
> > > root on a single program?
> > > Or is there another easy way?
> > > I have fixed this logged in as root but still would like to know the
> > > correct way :)....sux
> >
> > Yes there is:
> >
> > sux program followed by the root password.
>
> Is the sux program already installed and how do I use it.
> Tried to install it with apt-get install sux but it seems to be the
> wrong way cause I got this msg "Couldn't find package sux"
> /Per

It will be installed already. sux is a Suse method of invoking su so as to get 
you a root shell that's able to use the X window system. Have a careful look 
at man su and info su to see the details of what sux is based on. You'll see 
there are various clever aspects to the whole thing. 

Good luck
Fergus

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