RE: su question

[Bruce Sass <bsass@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca>]

Sorry for messing up the thread,
I accidentally deleted the original post.

I was going to suggest "chgrp"ing everything to "staff" then add
yourself to group staff, but that would mess with stuff in groups:
dip, shadow, ... and result in breakage.

How much would this break?

	chown -R operator /etc/* ; adduser someluckyguy operator


- Bruce

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> From: tom [mailto:balayo@mindspring.com]
> Sent: Friday, 07 July, 2000 7:15 AM
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> Subject: su question
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>  howdy guys,
> 
> This is one of those things that has
> been pestering me. while logged in as a user in x, how can I
> edit files that require su privileges? (like /etc/fstab). I
> usually su from eterm and "jed filename". can I su from within
> emacs? nedit?
> 
> thanks!
> 
> -tom
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later,

	Bruce