[huskerlug] Re: accessing non-linux partitions
- From: "Derek J. Augustine" <derek@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: huskerlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:37:01 -0500
sudo su gives me root terminal access in Ubuntu 7.10. Seems pretty
supported to me.
Luke Wilson wrote:
> It certainly wouldn't be "sudo su" unless you're trying to log in as
> another non-root user. You issue su with no arguments to become root,
> or you issue it with a username (su someuser) to become that user.
> Actually, I'm not sure if su comes with Debian by default - I'm pretty
> sure it's not supported in Ubuntu.
>
> tw wrote:
>
>> Ubuntu is a bastardized fork of Debian if I remember correctly.
>> Wouldn't it be sudo su - as well?
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 09:15 -0500, Joseph Smith wrote:
>>
>>
>>> If the newest versio nof debian is anything like ubuntu/kubuntu then
>>> you use sudo to run commands as superuser.
>>>
>>>
>>> you can also do: sudo su (gives you a shell running as root) if you
>>> are an admin user.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Apr 9, 2008, at 8:02 AM, Jim Worrest wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> I seem to have noticed that there is a new way to access partitions,
>>>> with Debian based Linuxes anyway. Referring to a file etc. Is there
>>>> an easy
>>>> way to get something that looks like the old way, and the average
>>>> user can
>>>> access them. By the way, I also notice that Debian doesn't like to
>>>> have a
>>>> user named "root" which may be one of the easier ways of doing
>>>> things, Any
>>>> way of having a "root" user?
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