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[kricit]

Hi all, I have been trying to add more functionality to my gambas application by allowing rrot access because i think that it is important to the application but when i send the bash command "su" it refuses it with a message like this "su not a standard tty" what does it mean and how can i fix this problem!

Thanks in advance for any help regarding this question.

Ashley Johnson
Kricit Project
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Kricit :: Open Source Freedom

[nelz]

It means that the su command is not being run in a terminal. Using su seems a bit of a risk anyway, sudo may be better and will run from a program.
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[kricit]

Hi, thanks for the reply I will try sudo now.......... Yep it works, thanks but it won't accept my root or user pswd. Does it have a password and how can i obtain it. I know that giving root priviledges is usually a bad idea but the program in question is Instaleeze and people can perform removal or installation of software without it. thanks for the information so far.

Many Thanks

Ashley Johnson
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Kricit :: Open Source Freedom

[nelz]

You can set up sudo to allow users to run specific commands without a password. By default it won't allow anyone to run anything, you have to add the relevant commands and users to /etc/sudoers.
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Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who it's friends are.