Carl Lowenstein wrote:
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Michael Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Im trying to learn how to use Linux Command line
How come when I try the command "useradd"
bash returns
bash: useradd: command not found
Because the command is located at /usr/sbin/useradd and /usr/sbin is
not in your default search path, which defines where the shell looks
for commands when you give them by name. You can learn what your
path is by
$ echo $PATH
Only root has the privilege of adding users, so the command wouldn't
work for you as an ordinary unprivileged user.
Best to use the "sudo" command. (Super User Do)
$ sudo /usr/sbin/useradd
Password: (asks for _your_ password)
carl
What would be the drawback of launching gnome-terminal and doing "su -"?
Would that leave me vulnerable somehow?
If I understand correctly, sudo has to be set up to allow me each
command I want to use, and asks for my password every time. I know that
sudo can be set up to allow me ALL commands, but then what would be the
advantage over having a gnome-terminal with "su -"?
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Ralph
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The sad thing is that the public is so overawed by these things [big
bang and long-age cosmologies], just because there is complex maths
involved. They don’t realize how much philosophical speculation and
imagination is injected along with the maths—these are really stories
that are made up.
--Physicist Keith Wanser, a young-universe creationist and full
Professor of Physics at California State University, Fullerton
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