On Wednesday, January 04, 2006 @ 10:48 PM, Nick Schmidt wrote:
Bruce Marshall <bmarsh@bmarsh.com> wrote: On Wednesday 04 January 2006 18:46, Nick Schmidt wrote:
The shell was what crashed, i am honestly not sure what it was doing inside the network configure menu anyways.
su doesn't have anything to do with networks. That's what the confusion is
all about.
Okay, I managed to do some research of my own, and this puzzles me. to configure which network is used for the internet, I need root privileges. This is all fine and dandy, but the fact is when it says this I am using root as a log in (I use root only to change settings, sort of to protect the computer from me) Inadequate permissions does not seem right for this, seeing as root is the unlimited setting account. Is there any way to reset the "SU" permissions so that I can manipulate this setting again? Thanks,
Nick Schmidt, KL0VJ, Ham radio operator for 5 years
Nick: What Bruce is saying is that su has nothing to do with your problem. Su says change the id of the current shell to another user (which can be root). If you had 2 users set up on your machine, you could open 3 shells, use one shell as yourself, use su to set one shell to the other regular user, and use su to set the 3rd shell to root. Then, the privileges associated with whatever command you enter in any of the shells is determined by the user that that shell is set to. Maybe I'm giving you information you already know, but it seemed like you were a bit confused about what su did. In your case, if you log in as root, any shell you pull up should behave the same as if you had logged in as a regular user and done an su to root. So, 'reset the "SU" permissions', you are talking about something that makes no sense (no offense intended). Maybe I've misread your note somehow, but it seems to me that you are not really understanding the functionality of the su statement itself. Greg Wallace