Suid?
 

I have suid installed on PCLinuxOS. However, in my user account it will not let me run a program with super user abilities. The "enter root password to continue" text pops up I enter the root password and then nothing. In a terminal I type "su" then the password. Then nothing happens the prompt doesn't even come up. It is just a blank line that I can type in. How to I configure my system to use this?

Thanks...

What do you mean "I have suid installed"? AFAIK, suid something you do to an existing program file. It's a special permission which says (of the program file it is set on):

If you have set the suid permission on a file - which file, and who is the owner of the file?

Do you mean sudo? This is program which achieves much the same thing as using the suid permission, but has less problems (using suid is generally considered a bad thing, and should be used with caution).

Yes, I meant sudo. Sorry about that, I do have sudo installed. How do I get to use super user access?

Not sure about PCLinuxOS and sudo. I don't know how PCLinuxOS is set up for that stuff. Sorry :(

Type 'su <username>' to switch to user, or leave blank to switch to root. Then it will ask for password. You can also use 'su -' which will remember enviromental variables like PATH.

Or type 'sudo <program>' to run a program as root. It will ask for pass.

'man sudo' and 'man su' for more help

Nevermind... Once I found out I was calling it the wrong thing that made everything easier.

-I went into synaptic and found the program. Then I started playing around in a terminal. I figured why not and tried, logged in as root:

# sudo --help

~then~

# sudo [ -u whishkah ]

That seems to have worked. Thank you all for your help.