Rm will happily remove files for you, though it should be used
sparingly, since a bad rm command could wipe your entire hd, though it
would take some serious coincidence to make it happen by accident. mv
will move files, cp will copy them, and (on osx at least) pushd and
popd will save restore directories in case you need to go somewhere
else first to do something, and you're 6 levels deep in the file
system, and really don't feel like typing that all out again to get
back where you were. A simple pushd ./ will save the folder for you,
cd where ever you like, then a popd will get you back where you were.
One of the more useful navigation commands imo.
hth.
On Sep 22, 2014, at 5:41 AM, Gordon Smith wrote:
Hi Travis
OK, yes, I did know about the sudo command. But the developer of an
app requires SSH root access to one of our systems. That’s why I
requested root access.
On one of our machines I can actually log in as root, but that
machine is where this server is running and I need to do some
serious work on that myself which will undoubtedly break that access
level.
I’ll try using sudo first though on the other system.
What’s the Unix equivalent for the Windows Del command? I need to
delete a group of files from a root-only access folder.
Many thanks.
On 21 Sep 2014, at 20:59, Travis Siegel <tsie...@softcon.com> wrote:
You can get root access by using the sudo command. Normally, you'd
simply run a single command using sudo and it would run as root,
however, a command like
sudo /bin/bash
will get you a root shell, and you need only use your own password
to make it happen (assuming you're an admin on the machine of course).
You're of course welcome to use any shell you like, assuming you
have others installed, but bash is the default, and it's unlikely
you'll need another one anyhow.
once you use the sudo command, you will have a root shell, and you
can perform any function required. Typing exit at a shell prompt
will get you back to your normal user-level shell, and typing exit
again will exit the shell, and end your terminal session altogether.
As far as logging in as root from the terminal screen, if it's
possible, I've never figured out how to do so. Others have managed
it, but I have not, though it doesn't really matter, because a sudo
root shell provides exactly the same access as logging in directly
as root.
hth.
On Sep 20, 2014, at 6:48 AM, Gordon Smith wrote:
Hi all
As part of the fix process for our mail system, I need to log into
our machine as “root” I always thought that once at the log-in
screen, you could simply use “Root” as the user ID, and “root” as
the password. Apparently, this isn’t the case any longer; although
our old Snow Leopard machine does let me in that way.
How, then, does one enable root access? This is something I need
to do urgently, so a rapid response, possibly, off list, would be
very much appreciated.
I’m clearly a little ring-rusty when it comes to my Unix/Linux
skills, something I’n really going to have to brush up on.
Thanks.
Kind regards
Gordon
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