[huskerlug] Re: accessing non-linux partitions
- From: tw <techworld.mail@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: huskerlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:09:48 -0500
Sudo su - will give you full permissions and the root path. If you sudo
su you will get the root user without the root paths. No idea on
Ubuntu, however. Those guys have made a giant mess of the OS.
On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 10:37 -0500, Derek J. Augustine wrote:
> 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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