On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:43:14 -0700, nouveauricheinvestments asked:

> I'm trying to add my native windows driver (ssb) to the blacklist with
> the following command:
>
> su gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
>
> And it is telling me the following:
>
> su: user gedit does not exist
>
> That isn't right is it?

Actually, it is right. The user gedit does not exist.

The command *su* is to changes from one user to another.

The command to execute a command as another user is *sudo*.

For both commands, if the target username is omitted, then the target
user defaults to root.

Whether or not you will be permitted to execute the desired command
as the target user with sudo, will be determined by the configuration
present in the /etc/sudoers file.

nouveauricheinvestments@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to add my native windows driver (ssb) to the blacklist with
> the following command:
>
> su gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
>
> And it is telling me the following:
>
> su: user gedit does not exist
>
> That isn't right is it?

no..

'su gedit' tells the system to give root powers to the user named gedit, which
you have found does not exist on your system..

whereas 'su' by itself means give the user using the terminal root powers

and, 'su -' says give me root powers and roots path

and, 'sudo gedit' says open the file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist in gedit while i
have root powers and my own path..

see?
lots at
man su
man sudo
http://rute.2038bug.com/


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