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Re: TELNET client. How? (new to Linux).

Re: TELNET client. How? (new to Linux).
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.
>
>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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Re: TELNET client. How? (new to Linux).
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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