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• Started 12 years ago by romano
• Latest reply from kultex
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   romano
   

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   I use slitaz as frugal installation on fat32 and for settings ext3 partition.
   I should copy some files automatically under /usr/bin

   If im trying to copy is giving error as permission denied. I should enter su user with password.

   So what i need. How can i automatically use in terminal su user with password?

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   mojo
   

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   su means substitute user
   tux@slitaz:~$ su
   password:
   If the password entered is correct:
   root@slitaz:~#
   When the command prompt looks like this:
   root@slitaz:~#
   You should be able to cp/mv/rm files/folders anywhere on your local filesystem.
   Now to go back to tux:
   root@slitaz:~# su tux
   tux@slitaz:~$
   Root is not asked for password to switch to a regular user.

   Cooking has an annoying bug:
   su changes current directory to /home/~ for regular users and /root for root
   This is what su - is for.
   su should never change the current directory.
   If anyone knows how to fix this other than installing sudo please reply.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   romano
   

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   I mean i know how to use root user in terminal.
   Just want to make it automatically way in shell script.

   * something like i will give user and password in same line in terminal and terminal will be login root already.

   * Or else i want people to use slitaz with all permission instead of tux. ( I dont know how )

   I hope I am clear.

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   ACTUALLY I JUST WANNA COPY SINGLE FILE UNDER /ROOT FOLDER WHEN SLITAZ START OR IN SH FILE (USERS WILL NOT TYPE PASSWORD OR SOMETHING) (SHOULD BE AUTOMATICALLY)
   

   EVENT CANT COPY USR/BIN FOLDER
   

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   Posted 12 years ago #
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   Anonymous
   

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   You could add yourself to the root group, thus enabling you to do all things the root account can do. There are tools to do this (moduser), I don't have them on my slitaz, but adding tux to the end of the first line in /etc/group may work(?) so like this:

   root:x:0:tux

   I hold no resposibility for breaking your system though, because moduser might do more then just change that one file.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   romano
   

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   as i learned in linux (6 months experience with puppy, slitaz and xubuntu) small requests may turn be complicated :)

   its not like what i think, its about what linux distro think :)

   anyway thanks

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   kultex
   

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   If you want do do it as root every time booting slitaz, you just put the command in /etc/init.d/local.sh

   Posted 12 years ago #

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