[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nelson Goforth) wrote:
>I tried using 'su' as you suggested. It prompts me for a password
>and I used the same one that I created initially to set up my admin
>account (I have not enabled root) - which I have used to install
>software using 'sudo' - however I get the response 'Sorry' and I'm
>not given access. I also tried it with no password at all, and I
>tried a few other things, as below:
You can do 'sudo su', which has the same effect as just 'su' (but plain
'su' won't work while root is disabled).
If you know the name of the file, you can skip all this and just do:
sudo cp /usr/local/var/whatever-file .
sudo chown <your-username> whatever-file
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