Try "sudo su". I remember needing to do this on some Linux variant, but I don't remember which. ~Kevin Harrington On Jan 6, 2011, at 12:00 PM, wlug-request@mail.wlug.org wrote:

Send Wlug mailing list submissions to wlug@mail.wlug.org

To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to wlug-request@mail.wlug.org

You can reach the person managing the list at wlug-owner@mail.wlug.org

When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Wlug digest..."

Today's Topics:

1. Re: problems with su (WAS: help) (Tal Cohen)

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Message: 1 Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 10:18:33 -0500 From: "Tal Cohen" <wlug@cohen123.com> Subject: Re: [Wlug] problems with su (WAS: help) To: "Worcester Linux Users Group" <wlug@mail.wlug.org> Message-ID: <4C901AF48ABD4E078B84E9530841B1A0@assetid00041> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original

Does "which su" find su in your path?

If not, try "find / -name su" to find out where it is on your system.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric J. Martin" <eric.joshua.martin@gmail.com> To: "Worcester Linux Users Group" <wlug@mail.wlug.org> Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 9:04 AM Subject: Re: [Wlug] problems with su (WAS: help)

...

_______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

------------------------------

_______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

End of Wlug Digest, Vol 87, Issue 3 ***********************************