[KLUG Members] Getting our Compaq laptop on wireless

[Brock Inglehart]

OK, I opened a shell, it came up saying "Brock at linux:->."  I typed in
su, pushed enter and it came back on the next line with one word,
Password.  I typed in my root password and it came back on the next line
with "linux:/home/brock #."  Does that mean I'm in root?
Brock

On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 18:26 -0500, Dominic L Hilsbos wrote:
> Brock Inglehart wrote:
> 
> >That is the instructions that I found on line also.  That's good because
> >if I need clarification we will be looking at the same thing.  One thing
> >I don't remember, When I open a shell, I'm not in root level.  How do I
> >get there.  I remember it asks me for my root password but how do I get
> >there?
> >
>  From an existing shell, or from X (KDE, Gnome, etc.)?
> 
> If you are already in a shell you can do an su (it stands for _s_witch 
> _u_ser)(check su --help and man su for more info), and then enter the 
> root password.
> 
> If you're in KDE, or Gnome and don't have a shell, open GNOME Terminal, 
> or KDEs Terminal, then follow the above directions.
> 
> Or if you're in Gnome/KDE do Ctrl+Alt+F1 and it'll take you to a 
> standard login shell, enter /root/ and then the root password.
>