On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 16:42 +0200, Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC) wrote:
Hi list!
I was told that I´t wasn´t good to alow root logins (I´m new to Suse). I then used YAST to click ~"don´t alow root logins" thinking I would be able to "su" when I needed to be root. I then found out that "su" doesn´t work so I tried "sudo" instead, but that doesn´t work either.
Is there any way for me to enter my current system as root now/again? When you used su to be root what was the exact command you issued as
Peo Nilsson wrote: there are two, both with different results. Both
I execute ´su´ and then the bash shell asks for root password, when I type in the correct password the shell responds with ´incorrect password´. I´m 100% sure that the password I type is correct. Now I also have tried ´su root´ with the same result.
Plain 'su' or 'su root' when you are a user will ask you for the root password and change your command prompt fro a $ to a #. However the path used will still be the same as the user you are su'ing from ie it will not include the locations root needs to execute commands.
If you do 'su -' it will again ask for the root password and change your coammnd prompt from a $ to a #. Now however, because of the dash, you are using roots path anf therefore the root programs you try and execute will work as they are able to access the required libraries they need fro the locations listed in the PATH.
For more reading, please see 'info su'.
HTH
Regards Hylton -- ======================================================================== Currently using unpatched SuSE 9.2 Professional with KDE and Mozilla 1.7.2 Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org ========================================================================
/Peo