Subject: Re: login problems
From: Mac Mason (macmasta@ak.net)
Date: Thu Jun 19 2003 - 18:32:18 AKDT
You can fix the path thing by always using "su -"
like "su -" for root or "su - mac" to switch to my user.
That makes it a login shell - much happier.
~Mac~
On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 19:36, Greg Jetter wrote:
> On Thursday June 19 2003 1:25 pm, Lee Ross wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > A short time back I found Linux locked up. After many hours of reading =
> and
> > trial and error, I was able to manually repair things and got back to
> > 'almost' normal. One little glitch left over from that mess is a login
> > problem. If I'm at my user level and want to login as root I should be =
> able
> > to log out of user and then log in as root. Visa versa, from root to us=
> er.
> > This does not work any longer and now I have to 'restart the computer' =
> to
> > be able to log in as 'root'. Once I am done in root I can log out and l=
> og
> > in as user with no problems. This is al done on the GUI, Gnome. Grub is
> > being used also.
> >
> > I cannot figure out how to login when in the terminal window, either. A=
> s
> > usual, I'm missing a piece of the puzzle.
> >
> > I have Red Hat 8.0 - i686, 2.4.20-18.8 - Qt library 3.0.5 Gnome interfa=
> ce.
> >
> > Thanks,
>
> You can always get root access from a normal user account with the "su"=20
> command , open a terminal and type "su" you will be promped for a pa=
> ss=20
> word , enter the "root" password , you will see the prompt chang to indi=
> cate=20
> that you are now "root" , one problem you may encounter is that when you=
> use=20
> the "su" command you may find that the "path" envirment varaible become=
> s=20
> confused , so for instance if you need to execute as root a command in =
> the=20
> /sbin directory instead of just typing the command name you have to typ=
> e in=20
> the full fpath to the command. like /sbin/grep instead of just grep.
>
> additionaly you allways have additional login terminals on the function=
> keys =20
> "cntrl->alt->f2 , f3,f4,f5,f6, etc. so you can allways login as root an=
> d=20
> fix something that went wrong.
>
> Greg J
>
>
>
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