 | | | "su " command isn 't working properly on RH 7.3? | "su " command isn 't working properly on RH 7.3? 2002-07-10 - By Frank Tanner III
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Are you just typing su root to change? If so you 're
not setting your pathing information. I highly
recommend typing su -l root, to get to root. This is
what I use and it works perfectly under RH 7.3.
--- nugs munkee <nugsmunkee@(protected) > wrote:
> Hi everyone, I am a Linux newbie so bare with me. I
> have recently installed RH7.3 and I am using KDE
> 3.0. I don 't like to login as root so I usually use
> the su command if I need to run a privliged command.
> However it doesn 't seem to be working for me. For
> instance when I login to X and try to run the
> command fdisk using su. It returns "Command not
> found " just as it does with an unprivilaged user.
> Now when I completley logout and login as root, the
> commands work. Does anyone know what would be
> causing this? I have gotten acustomed to using "su "
> in previous versions of Mandrake, and would like to
> know if anyone knows what is going wrong. Thanks
>
>
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