I'm not sure about the first one, but for the admin privilages
You can assign root privaliges to any user by using the users option
linuxconf
I warn against this. rather have root and a seperate user to work
with. linux generally protects users from destroying important things
(eg: kernel, File
Log in as your normal user and type 'set' at the command prompt. What do you
have for $PATH?
You don't want your ordinary user to have administrator rights. It's a bad
move. However, if you REALLY want to expose your self to disaster, you can
either simply log in as root, or use root to make
Sounds like you don't have your $PATH defined. Type this command, as the
user, and let us know what you get.
/bin/echo $PATH
As the user, you should get something like this in return:
[timh@r2d2 timh]$ /bin/echo $PATH
Of Tim Holmes
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Sounds like you don't have your $PATH defined. Type this command, as the
user, and let us know what you get.
/bin/echo $PATH
As the user, you should get something like this in return:
[timh
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Sounds like you don't have your $PATH defined. Type this command, as the
user, and let us know what you get.
/bin/echo $PATH
As the user, you should get something like this in return:
[timh@r2d2 timh
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Subject:RE: [newbie] Command not found
Thanks for prompt reply
This is wat i have for path
/usr/local/bin /bin /usr/bin /usr/X11R6/bin
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fully qualify the command name. For example,
/bin/ls
/bin/cd
/bin/vi
However, if your path is as you show below, it should work. Maybe your login
script isn't exporting the path to subshells... Can see why not though
roger... thanks for the advice... i'll follow it...
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Sent: 03 October 2001 00:57
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It's still a bad way of doing things - if your
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Sounds like you don't have your $PATH defined. Type this command, as the
user, and let us know what you get.
/bin/echo $PATH
As the user, you should get something like
I would suggest running through these steps.
=
1) Login as root
a) As root, edit the /etc/passwd. To do that type the command vipw.
This will give you a vi editor that will edit the passwd
Need to ask you, is the below steps to change my default shell or to enable
the rest of the shells to run the commands?
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Sent: 03 October 2001 00:32
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i default my shell to csh... how do I make the login script export the
path
to subshells? or how do I change to other shell since my root account have
no problem
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