Greetings,
While getting a feel for my Redhat 5.1 system, and trying to upgrade I
have been using su a lot while logged in as a regular user. However I
have noticed some interesting limitations.
it seems while su'd as root, I cannot initialize an ftp session,
adduser, mkdir, cp or rm anything. Each time I try, I get a command not
found message on the console. For ftp I get no route to host. Howver if
I log in directly as root, I can do all of these, wihtout a hitch.
Is there a particular reason why? It seems that these limitations make
su kind of pointless, and eliminates it's security benefits.
I have an external Ditto backup by Iomega, that attaches to the
parallel port. However it has a pass through for a printer to be
attached as well. has anyone had expeirience with the resource sharing
protocol metioned in the ZIP drive mini-how-to ? if so, how did it work,
and did/would/could you ever try to run a terminal through it ?
thanks again!
Peter
