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Old 11-11-2003, 02:46 PM   #1
JyushinX
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Can't Get into KDE


I ran into a problem. I somehow messed with the priveleges of "su". When I boot up, it gives me the option to logon as the user name I created. I can only do it in failsafe mode though because the priveleges also messed up my home directory. So i boot into failsafe mode. But I can't switch to root to change the priveleges on my home directory. Is there anyway I can boot up into root without having to switch users?

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Old 11-11-2003, 06:09 PM   #2
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Usage: su [OPTION]... [-] [USAGER [ARG]...]
Modifier les identificateurs effectifs de l'usager et de groupe comme
étant ceux de l'USAGER.

-, -l, --login utiliser ce shell comme étant celui de
la session de travail
-c, --commmand=COMMANDE passer la COMMANDE au shell avec -c
-f, --fast passer -f au shell (valable pour csh ou tcsh)
-m, --preserve-environment ne pas réinitialiser les variables
d'environnement
-p identique à -m
-s, --shell=SHELL lancer le SHELL si /etc/shells le permet
--help afficher l'aide-mémoire
--version afficher le nom et la version du logiciel

Un tiret - implique -l. Si l'argument USAGER n'est pas fourni,
l'usager « root » est utilisé.


Type

su -l root

If you can't my newbie advice would be to change the run level from 5 to 3 in /etc/inittab as root
Cause basically this runlevel starts with root by default but i'm not sure
 
  


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