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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!news.alpha.net!news.mathworks.com!udel!gatech!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!news.unt.edu!replicant!jackson From: jackson@replicant.csci.unt.edu (Bruce Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: Re: Question from a first-time UNIX (BSD) user Date: 6 Dec 1994 06:02:29 GMT Organization: University of North Texas Lines: 24 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <3c0upl$je5@hermes.unt.edu> References: <bjohnson.214.2EE38233@osrhe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: replicant.csci.unt.edu In article <bjohnson.214.2EE38233@osrhe.edu>, BJ <bjohnson@osrhe.edu> wrote: > about the fourth time I booted this system, I got a # LOGIN:. This > confused me, and I am dead in the water. I Loged in as root but > received "don't login as root, use su ". > I tried to log in as su but it won't let me. > What is my next step to be It didn't mean to log in as su but to use the su command. The prefered way to become root is to use the su (substitute user) command rather than logging in as root directly. After you have a user login for yourself you will need to add that username to the root group and after that you will be able to become root with the "su" command. When you learn your way around the system you will learn to adjust ownerships and permissions such that you rarely need to become root at all; you will just make yourself owner of the things you are working on so you won't need to be root. When you are root one wrong keystroke can wipe out your system so you should avoid being root as much as is practical. -- Bruce Jackson | Univ. of North Texas | jackson@cs.unt.edu UNIX Systems Admin. | P. O. Box 13886 | GAB 550E (817)565-2279 Dept. of Computer Sci.| Denton, Tx. 76203-3886 | FAX: (817)565-2799