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Sun, 16 Mar 2008 14:42:34 -050 |
On Sun, 16 Mar 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.help, in article
<firqt391th975pemmtl7b25aml2esrem8s@4ax.com>, Joe Zeff wrote:
>(Moe Trin) wrote:
>>You probably have
>>limited root access using the 'su' or 'sudo' account.
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>Not su, because you need the root password for that.
Geez Joe, did you fail to read the rest of the post? As where I wrote:
]]I (obviously) don't use Xandros, but understand that such access is made
]]using the 'sudo' command. If you are using some GUI desktop, they may
]]have their own front-end (helper) such as 'kdesu' in KDE, and 'gksudo'
]]in GNOME. 'su' is probably installed, but not usable without the root
]]password.
Hmmm
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Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:03:08 GMT |
On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:33:17 -0500, ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld
(Moe Trin) wrote:
>You probably have
>limited root access using the 'su' or 'sudo' account.
Not su, because you need the root password for that. However, a
little googlemancy shows that
sudo -i
opens a bash shell as root, which gives you what you need.
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