Re: su?

[David Jardine <david@jardine.de>]

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 :()