yup right what i want ......i want to resole the following .....

vis...@vishal-laptop:~$sudo -s
unable to resole the host vishal


this is all i got, for being late i appologies.....



On 3/22/09, Arun Khan <kn...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 22 Mar 2009, Sudhang Shankar wrote:
>> On Sunday 22 Mar 2009 4:34:24 pm Arun Khan wrote:
>> > > i think one has to do
>> > > "sudo su"
>> >
>> > Recommend  "sudo su - <user name>"
>> >
>> > gives you the user's shell environment; in the absence of an <user
>> > name> you get the super user's environment.
>>
>> But that's what he wants, right? Quoth Raghav:
>
> the emphasis is on the "-"; w/o the the "-" you inherit the regular
> user's environment i.e. the one who does "sudo su".  It can lead to
> strange problems especially with scripts.
>
>> >"sudo" command is not working in the tarminal, *when
>> >i give the command to enter in the root, it shows fail to it .
>
> I do not quite understand what the OP is trying to say.
>
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