On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 11:41, vivek wrote:
> Jasmeet S. Virdi wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > In continuation with my earlier endeavours to administer a linux box
> > from a telnet shell, i am facing another problem. I enter the box
> > using some user id, then switch to su, i am able to install rpms, but
> > am not able to run certain commands like "useradd" "usermod" etc..
> > shutdown .. . Any
>
> i think in redhat (unlike mandrake) when yu login as root, it doesn't
> take the directories in root's default path (??). what yu can do is,
> find out which command yu wish to yu use by
>
> whereis useradd
>
> it'll list the path where useradd is located (/usr/sbin, /sbin etc.),
> then run the command by
>
> /usr/sbin/useradd
>
> or use ssh instead of telnet and directly login as root.
>
> vivek
How about a su -
which gives you the environment of the user you switch to.
Tarun Dua
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