On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Peter Flinkfelt wrote:
> 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 ?
Do you use 'su - root'
If not i suggest you try, you will then inherit roots defaults or at
least most of them.
> thanks again!
>
> Peter
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Regards Richard
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