I always thought "su - " loads the root profile/environment, while "su" just escalates privileges?<div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Bob Kline <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Eric Beversluis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ebever@researchintegration.org" target="_blank">ebever@researchintegration.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><div></div><div>On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 15:12 -0400, Bob Kline wrote:<br>
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> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Kyle <<a href="mailto:dontwantspam1@earthlink.net" target="_blank">dontwantspam1@earthlink.net</a>><br>
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> >From: Eric Beversluis <<a href="mailto:ebever@researchintegration.org" target="_blank">ebever@researchintegration.org</a>><br>
> >Sent: Sep 22, 2011 2:48 PM<br>
> >To: <a href="mailto:grlug@grlug.org" target="_blank">grlug@grlug.org</a><br>
> >Subject: [GRLUG] root on Fedora 15<br>
> ><br>
> >Well after all my trials with getting my new Lenovo x120e<br>
> running I've<br>
> >ended up with Fedora 15, which seems to be working nicely.<br>
> ><br>
> >One problem tho: I'm used to opening gedit from the command<br>
> line root<br>
> >prompt so I can edit root-permission files (don't use vi<br>
> often enough to<br>
> >remember the commands). But Fedora 15 won't let me do that.<br>
> ><br>
> >"<br>
> >[root@localhost eric]# gedit<br>
> ><br>
> >(gedit:20435): EggSMClient-WARNING **: Failed to connect to<br>
> the session<br>
> >manager: None of the authentication protocols specified are<br>
> supported<br>
> ><br>
> >g_dbus_connection_real_closed: Remote peer vanished with<br>
> error:<br>
> >Underlying GIOStream returned 0 bytes on an async read<br>
> >(g-io-error-quark, 0). Exiting.<br>
> >Terminated<br>
> >"<br>
> ><br>
> >No problem, I thought. I'll just log in as root. But Fedora<br>
> 15 won't let<br>
> >me do that either. I keep getting "authentication failed"<br>
> when I try to<br>
> >do that.<br>
> ><br>
> >So what's a guy to do? In the time I lost figuring this all<br>
> out I could<br>
> >have dug out a vi cheat sheet and done what I needed to do.<br>
> But I don't<br>
> >want to do that each time I need to edit a root-owned<br>
> document.<br>
> ><br>
> >Thanks.<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
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> Try "su -" instead of "sudo su".<br>
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> - Kyle<br>
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> What does that do?<br>
><br>
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> -- Bob<br>
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</div></div>That seems to have worked. (Use su - to switch to root and then call<br>
'gedit'. Some subtle diff between 'su' and 'su -', but I don't remember<br>
what it is.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div><div>Curious. The "su" man page suggests</div><div>that running su is not same as logging in</div><div>as root directly, but that "su -" is.</div>
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</div><div>"su" gives you root privileges, but not</div><div>the full environment of logging in as root.</div><div>Tried both ways, PATH is slightly different,</div><div>for example?</div><div><br></div><div>Having always used "su" to do root </div>
<div>related things, other than trial and error,</div><div>when should one use "su -" instead?</div><div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div> -- Bob</div></font><div class="im"><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Neither 'gksudo' nor 'gksu' are recognized as commands by Fedora 15. Is<br>
that just a Ubuntu thing?<br>
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