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Distribution: SuSE 9.1 Professional, Gentoo, The Jackass! Project
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Knoppix Questions - going to root?
I've got a couple of Knoppix questions that I'm hoping someone can answer.
I've used the Knoppix 3.3 CD to bail me out of a number of situations when I've borked-up my linux installation. It does seem to have a couple of shortcomings, though -- or maybe I just have some shortcomings when it comes to using Knoppix...
1. how to obtain root privs? sure you can "su" as the regular knoppix user, but some features require you to have a genuine root logon, such as initializing some of the daemons to support fileshareing (lisa, samba, etc).
2. how do you get the lisa daemon to work so you can use Samba with Knoppix? when I'm in a pinch and I've boogered up my linux distro, it would be nice to be able to use Knoppix/Samba to access the shares on some of the Win boxes on the network. whenever i try to enable Samba from the GUI, I'm always told taht I have to initialize the lisa daemon at boot, and unfortunately, that requires a logon as root.
did you try 'su -' ? Adding the -, ensures you have the same environment variables as root. su -, can be used with any valid username too...handy stuff (ie su - lisa )
truer root
just a thought
cheers
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