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Old 01-03-2016, 12:29 PM   #1
RobertDepelteau
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Su Log In Problem


Hello friends.

I installed rapsbian, and I'm trying to get into the interface folder in command prompt. I type:
/etc/network/interfaces

And I get : permission denied.
So I try to go to superuser typing

$ su
password: raspberry (I tried everything)

and I always get the same answer: su: authentication failure

What am I doing wrong?
 
Old 01-03-2016, 02:00 PM   #2
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have you tried sudo bash?
 
Old 01-03-2016, 02:09 PM   #3
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Interfaces is a configuration file not a directory.

sudo nano interfaces
 
  


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