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?
/bin/su is in the login package. If you want to supply a command to it, rather than run a shell, you need su -c <command>su <something> tries to change to user <something> and run a shell (man su for details).
-- Chris Jackson Shadowcat Systems Ltd.