On 07/09/2011 00:13, Fbsd8 wrote: > Thanks for your reply. I have a user id that is in the wheel group. > I su and get prompted for the user id's password after which I get > returned to the command line. Running the script with the mkdir command > embedded still returns Permission Denied message. I have read the su man > page to no joy. Could you please explain the sequence of events to get > su to work.
With su(1), you need to give the root password to get rootly powers.
Cheers,
Matthew
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