On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Kwan Lowe wrote:
> > BTW, what's your suggestion for a text editor that will let me edit as SU?
> > I'm currently using vi because I haven't figured out how to use any other
> > editor when I'm using my regular account and need to edit smb.config. Bill
> > Joy once said about vi - "If I had known how popular it would become, I
> > never would have created it."
>
> I'm not sure what you're asking here? You should still have access to the same
> utilities and editors when you su over to root. It may be some sort of X11
> authorization issue.
Could be that, but I'd guess the editors in question aren't in root's
$PATH (/usr/local/bin/ or whatever). You can always invoke whatever
editor you like by doing something like
First, as yourself, you do:
type baz
(if you like the editor "baz") That'll return something like
baz is /foo/bar/bin/baz
Then, as root,
/foo/bar/bin/baz
or
PATH="$PATH:/foo/bar/bin" baz
or
PATH="$PATH:/foo/bar/bin" ; export PATH; baz
As a long-term fix, add "/foo/bar/bin" to root's $PATH in /etc/profile or
/root/.profile.
Oh, and using "su - root" may make this problem go away, too.
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