David Jardine wrote:
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 04:36:48PM -0400, Doug wrote:
Tried to run a program from command line needing admin
capability.
Input su /usr/sbin/synaptic
Get message Unknown id: /usr/sbin/synaptic
Logged in as root, put in password, ran
/usr/sbin/synaptic
and the file ran fine.
Is there no su in Debian? If not what replaces it?
Now I need some kind of prefix to put in the icon properties
so that symantic will run in admin mode, otherwise it can't
download anything.
Thanx, doug
man su
But that's not what you want. Use sudo (more reading :()
That wouldn't be so bad if it was reading from a manual. But you are
reading from this funny screen that is hanging some distance in front of
you. So you zero in on that backlit panel while your back is killing you
all the while being grateful to technology for putting you into such a
numbing position...
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