su command not working

dahmad · 02-27-2003, 01:08 AM

Hi all,
I recently had the login problem, so now I can login fine with my user, but when I try to do an su, I get this

[dahmad@asia dahmad]$ su
Password:
su: cannot run /usr/bin/ksh: No such file or directory

which is true because I cannot find it, so what do I do?do I install ksh or change it to bash?(please tell me if I am talking nonsense with my suggestion)

Thanks for your help,

Sim

dahmad · 02-27-2003, 02:03 AM

It works

, I changed the root entry looking for ksh, to correct bash, but how do I customise the bash for things like colour and any paths that I had defined in the shell before this fix?

Thank you

Sim

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bulliver · 02-27-2003, 03:20 PM

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but how do I customise the bash for things like colour and any paths

User specific stuff goes in ~/.bashrc and stuff for everyone goes in /etc/profile

Crunch · 02-27-2003, 04:38 PM

Wait a minute, you are just typing *su* nothing else, why dont' you try typing "su root" <<or what not, try that. because you are just sending the command for "su" to happen, and not specifying what user name you want to login (well that's what you are showing us anyway )

jrdioko · 02-27-2003, 05:06 PM

Shouldn't typing "su" do the same thing as typing "su root"?

-JMagi

Proud · 02-27-2003, 05:30 PM

It probably says this in man su, but yes su on it's own assumes you want to switch user to root.

dahmad · 02-28-2003, 12:08 AM

su on its own simply goes into root automatically, there's no need to type su root