I didnt mean to change to root directory.
rgds
Antony Paul
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 23:23:37 -0800, Aron Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday 10 March 2005 11:20 pm, Antony Paul wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > When su as root in terminal window user name in title is not
> > changing to root whi
On Thursday 02 Oct 2003 8:22 pm, Charlie M. wrote:
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> October 2, 2003 01:44 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Someone said yesterday "All of these commands need to be run as super
> > user or root"
> >
> > These are two terms with the same meaning,
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 05:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Someone said yesterday "All of these commands need to be run as super user
> or root"
>
> These are two terms with the same meaning, right?
>
> Thanks,
> Max
Yes and no.
Logging into a system as "root" is NOT a good idea - ever. You can log
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October 2, 2003 01:44 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Someone said yesterday "All of these commands need to be run as super user
> or root"
>
> These are two terms with the same meaning, right?
>
> Thanks,
> Max
Hi Max;
Similar but not quite the same.
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 21:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Someone said yesterday "All of these commands need to be run as super user
> or root"
>
> These are two terms with the same meaning, right?
Yes.
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On Tue, 05 Feb 2002 16:06:01 -0900
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>Ummm IANAL, and I am very happy not to be!
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Chris Keelan wrote:
> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 09:03:33 -0500: In attempt to throw the authorities off his
> trail, "Anuerin G. Diaz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> transmitted:
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>>
>>IIRC - If I Remember/Recall Correctly
>>YMMV - Your Mileage Migh Vary
>>RTFM - Read the F**k*ng Manual
>>STFW - Surf the F**k*n
AFAIK-as far as I know
On Mon, 2002-02-04 at 20:01, mike wrote:
> "Anuerin G. Diaz" wrote:
> >
> > IIRC - If I Remember/Recall Correctly
> > YMMV - Your Mileage Migh Vary
> > RTFM - Read the F**k*ng Manual
> > STFW - Surf the F**k*ng Web
> > DAYOR - Do At Your Own Risk
> >
> > what else? hmmnnn.
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, mike wrote:
> "Anuerin G. Diaz" wrote:
> >
> > IIRC - If I Remember/Recall Correctly
> > YMMV - Your Mileage Migh Vary
> > RTFM - Read the F**k*ng Manual
> > STFW - Surf the F**k*ng Web
> > DAYOR - Do At Your Own Risk
> >
> > what else? hmmnnn.
>
>
> What is this AWAIK or some
On Monday 04 February 2002 20:01, you wrote:
> "Anuerin G. Diaz" wrote:
> > IIRC - If I Remember/Recall Correctly
> > YMMV - Your Mileage Migh Vary
> > RTFM - Read the F**k*ng Manual
> > STFW - Surf the F**k*ng Web
> > DAYOR - Do At Your Own Risk
> >
> > what else? hmmnnn.
>
> What is this AWAIK o
"Anuerin G. Diaz" wrote:
>
> IIRC - If I Remember/Recall Correctly
> YMMV - Your Mileage Migh Vary
> RTFM - Read the F**k*ng Manual
> STFW - Surf the F**k*ng Web
> DAYOR - Do At Your Own Risk
>
> what else? hmmnnn.
What is this AWAIK or something like that.
Mike
Want to buy your Pack or Se
Tue, 5 Feb 2002 09:03:33 -0500: In attempt to throw the authorities off his
trail, "Anuerin G. Diaz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> transmitted:
>
>
> IIRC - If I Remember/Recall Correctly
> YMMV - Your Mileage Migh Vary
> RTFM - Read the F**k*ng Manual
> STFW - Surf the F**k*ng Web
> DAYOR - Do At Your
I did. Found a fix, by editing the /etc/security/limits.conf by adding two
> zero's to the limit.
> Not sure what IIRC is.
> Thanks.
> Geoff Thomas
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On Monday 04 February 2002 04:11 pm, Geoff Thomas wrote:
> I did. Found a fix, by editing the /etc/security/limits.conf by adding two
> zero's to the limit.
> Not sure what IIRC is.
Formatting casualty. *grin*
It reads as, "Did you perchance suddenly install Bastille-linux, the
firewall? It def
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 3:15 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] su
> > Geoff Thomas wrote:
> >
> > I've been using su to change to root for admin. tasks.
> > Suddenly it won't work and it says file limit is exceeded.
> > What gives?
> > GT
>
> Soun
3, 2002 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] su
> * Geoff Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [03 Feb 02 14:51]:
> > I've been using su to change to root for admin. tasks.
> > Suddenly it won't work and it says file limit is exceeded.
> > What gives?
>
> Did you perchance sudd
First do a df and see if any of
your file systems are out of space.
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> I've been using su t
On Sunday 03 February 2002 02:41 pm, Geoff Thomas wrote:
> I've been using su to change to root for admin. tasks.
> Suddenly it won't work and it says file limit is exceeded.
> What gives?
> GT
Is your '/' partition full?
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On Sunday 03 February 2002 14:15, you wrote:
> > Geoff Thomas wrote:
> >
> > I've been using su to change to root for admin. tasks.
> > Suddenly it won't work and it says file limit is exceeded.
> > What gives?
> > GT
>
> Sounds like you just installed Bastille and picked that option. You can
> ch
> Geoff Thomas wrote:
>
> I've been using su to change to root for admin. tasks.
> Suddenly it won't work and it says file limit is exceeded.
> What gives?
> GT
Sounds like you just installed Bastille and picked that option. You can change
a line in the Bastille configuration file that limits fi
On Wednesday 03 October 2001 11:50 pm, you wrote:
| Try going to a terminal and typing "su". If the command is found, you
| should get prompted for a root password. If not, something sinister is
| afoot.
I do have su. I use it all the time. It seems like KDE can't find it, and I
am wondering wh
On Friday 21 September 2001 12:42, etharp wrote:
> > On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> > > I assume that by "localhost" you mean the login prompt. If so, you need
> > > to log in as "root", not su. su is a console command which stands for
> > > "switch user"; it is not a user in its
I had this as well . I think it is to do with security levels because on a
lower level I can su okay.
petew
On Thursday 16 August 2001 05:32, Scott Olfert wrote:
> Hey guys, wondering if you can help me w/ this problem. I've searched for
> an answer, but i couldn't seem to find much of one
On Wednesday 27 June 2001 07:58, Ross Slade wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Ross Slade wrote:
> > Problem solved. I won't pretend to understand the hows or why's, but I
> > finally located this file:
> >
> > /root/.xauth/refcount/rosco/bunyip/unix:0
> >
> > With a 100meg file size. After deleting it
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Ross Slade wrote:
> Problem solved. I won't pretend to understand the hows or why's, but I finally
> located this file:
>
> /root/.xauth/refcount/rosco/bunyip/unix:0
>
> With a 100meg file size. After deleting it I can now 'su' again.
>
> rosco = my usual user name
> bunyip =
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Tom Brinkman wrote:
Problem solved. I won't pretend to understand the hows or why's, but I finally
located this file:
/root/.xauth/refcount/rosco/bunyip/unix:0
With a 100meg file size. After deleting it I can now 'su' again.
rosco = my usual user name
bunyip = my machine's
On Monday 25 June 2001 23:37, you wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Dennis M. wrote:
> > On Monday 25 June 2001 22:30, you wrote:
> > > I've neved seen this before...
> > >
> > > -
> > > su -
> > > Password:
> > > File size limit exceeded
> > >
> > >
> > > -Ross
> >
> Sorry, but I'm
On Monday 25 June 2001 09:30 pm, Ross Slade wrote:
> I've neved seen this before...
>
> -
> su -
> Password:
> File size limit exceeded
>
I got the same error recently just after upgrading KDE2alpha2 rpms.
I errantly quit the Xterm I was using to upgrade the rpms, and when I
On Tue, 8 May 2001, Delagarza, Gilbert wrote:
> Does anybody know how I can change my ID on a Linux workstation to be
> equivalent to root or close to it?
>
>
to create a user equiv to root try this
/usr/sbin/adduser admin -g 0 -u 0
that means a user with gid and uid 0
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Petre Daniel
Roman
Delagarza, Gilbert wrote:
>
> Does anybody know how I can change my ID on a Linux workstation to be
> equivalent to root or close to it?
>
Sorry, I may be misunderstanding your question, but won't su do what you
want? (If not, do you really want to change the UID for your user
account to some
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Got gtoaster up and running. Works fine from the command line after I log
>in as su. Is there any way to modify my desktop icon to open gtoaster as su?
>Mike Riffle
kdesu -c "gtoaster"
You can also make a group cdwiter (as is there in 7.2), give tha
At 09:37 PM 11/16/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>On Thursday 16 November 2000 20:46, some strange person did etch this in
>stone:
>> Got gtoaster up and running. Works fine from the command line after I log
>> in as su. Is there any way to modify my desktop icon to open gtoaster as
>> su? Mike Riffle
>>
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, you wrote:
> Got gtoaster up and running. Works fine from the command line after I log
> in as su. Is there any way to modify my desktop icon to open gtoaster as su?
> Mike Riffle
>
> Morgantown, WV USA
> http://web.mountain.net/~kneiper/rifrak.htm
> Montani Semper Liberi
> N
On Thursday 16 November 2000 20:46, some strange person did etch this in
stone:
> Got gtoaster up and running. Works fine from the command line after I log
> in as su. Is there any way to modify my desktop icon to open gtoaster as
> su? Mike Riffle
>
the command shoulr read...
"kdesu -c gtoaster
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