Re: [newbie] Small question about command line

2002-04-16 Thread g
Pascal Goguey wrote: On 2002 April 16 Tuesday 02:39, you wrote: 'su' means _superuser_, not 'substitute user', which it does. From man pages: NAME su - substitute user identity SYNOPSIS su [-Kflm] [login [shell arguments]] etc... Pascal i could claim various reason for

Re: [newbie] Small question about command line

2002-04-16 Thread Warren Post
As root, enter: su user to change to account user Warren On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 15:21:07 -0300 (ART) Lúcio Costa de Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Everybody... I'm trying to improve my skills in command line. What I'd like to do.. I'm logged as root and must test some user

Re: [newbie] Small question about command line

2002-04-16 Thread Ron Bouwhuis
Actually, better to use: su - user Without the minus sign, you just change your UID / GID. With the minus sign, it's just like logging in as that user, running their login scripts, initiating their user environment variables, etc, which is probably what you want when testing a user config.

[newbie] Small question about command line

2002-04-15 Thread Lúcio Costa de Almeida
Hello Everybody... I'm trying to improve my skills in command line. What I'd like to do.. I'm logged as root and must test some user configurations. What command I'll use, in shell, to change to this user ??? root --- simple user Ex:[root@Sparta] login user - [user@Sparta] I used

Re: [newbie] Small question about command line

2002-04-15 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 15:21:07 -0300 (ART) Lúcio Costa de Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Everybody... I'm trying to improve my skills in command line. What I'd like to do.. I'm logged as root and must test some user configurations. What command I'll use, in shell, to change

Re: [newbie] Small question about command line

2002-04-15 Thread g
Lúcio Costa de Almeida wrote: What command I'll use, in shell, to change to this user ??? root --- simple user su username ie, if you are logged in a root, and you enter 'su simple', you would become user simple. if you are logged in a simple, and you enter 'su root', you would become

Re: [newbie] Small question about command line

2002-04-15 Thread Pascal Goguey
On 2002 April 16 Tuesday 02:39, you wrote: 'su' means _superuser_, not 'substitute user', which it does. From man pages: NAME su - substitute user identity SYNOPSIS su [-Kflm] [login [shell arguments]] etc... Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to