From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xscavenger - game
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2013 10:03:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130706100335.5c8e5a50@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130706035536.GD30211@syscon7.inet>
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On Fri, 5 Jul 2013 21:55:36 -0600, Joseph wrote:
> What was confusing to me is the fact that I logged into the system via
> ssh to my account and "su" to use who was in group "games" but for some
> reason or another the games would not execute.
su gives you the rights of the user but it not the same as logging in as
that user. To do that use "su -l username" or "su username -".
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Neil Bothwick
Cereal Killer Strikes Again! Cap'n Crunch found dead...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-06 9:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-06 0:49 [gentoo-user] xscavenger - game Joseph
2013-07-06 2:45 ` Paul Hartman
2013-07-06 3:27 ` Joseph
2013-07-06 3:37 ` Paul Hartman
2013-07-06 3:45 ` Joseph
2013-07-06 3:36 ` David Relson
2013-07-06 3:55 ` Joseph
2013-07-06 9:03 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2013-07-06 18:20 ` Thanasis
2013-07-06 19:32 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-07-07 15:49 ` Bryan Gardiner
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