 | | | "su " command isn 't working properly on RH 7.3? | "su " command isn 't working properly on RH 7.3? 2002-07-10 - By nugs munkee
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Thanks everyone, I will try that tonight when I get home from work and report back. I didn 't know that switch existed, but it sounds like that should work. Thanks again.
Anne Possoz <anne.possoz@(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
This is how you will lear the difference between "su " and "su - ".
When you just type su, you are still in the same directory, with
the same environment variables, etc. When you type "su - " you
really become root as if you had loggged as root.
Anne
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<P > Thanks everyone, I will try that tonight when I get home from work and report back. I didn 't know that switch existed, but it sounds like that should work. Thanks again.
<P > <B > <I >Anne Possoz <anne.possoz@(protected)> </I > </B > wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE style= "PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid " >> Hi everyone, I am a Linux newbie so bare with me. I <BR >> have recently installed RH7.3 and I am using KDE <BR >> 3.0. I don 't like to login as root so I usually use <BR >> the su command if I need to run a privliged command. <BR >> However it doesn 't seem to be working for me. For <BR >> instance when I login to X and try to run the <BR >> command fdisk using su. It returns "Command not <BR >> found " just as it does with an unprivilaged user. <BR >> Now when I completley logout and login as root, the <BR >> commands work. Does anyone know what would be <BR >> causing this? I have gotten acustomed to using "su " <BR >> in previous versions of Mandrake, and would like to <BR >> know if anyone knows what is going wrong. Thanks <BR > <BR >This is how you will lear the difference between "su " and "su - ". <BR > <BR >When you just type su, you are still in the same directory, with <BR >!
the same environment variables, etc. When you type "su - " you <BR >really become root as if you had loggged as root. <BR > <BR >Anne <BR > <BR > <BR > <BR >__ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ <BR >Valhalla-list mailing list <BR >Valhalla-list@(protected) <BR >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/valhalla-list </BLOCKQUOTE > <p > <br > <hr size=1 > <b >Do You Yahoo!? </b > <br >
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