On Thursday 24 December 2009 09:35:24 spir wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm aware this question is ~ OT, not really kde related, but have no idea
> where else to post it, and surely many people here know the answer. To
> install new software (actually, the language Io, for which there seems to
> be no package), I had to type:
>
> su -c "sudo make aptget"
>
> This will not work. I'm asked for a password, then get "su: Authentication
> failure". Well, this simply cannot be, for I have only one admin password
> AFAIK and it works fine for sudo and kdesudo. I tried an old password I
> had long time ago (changed to make it more difficult), in case the one for
> 'su' may have sticked to old times while the one for sudo has changed, but
> it is not accepted neither.
You write that sudo and kdesudo works for you. This indicates that you are
using a distro that doesn't use a superuser (root) account, but instead
automatically gives some extended rights (membership of certain groups) to the
first added user (*Ubuntu?.
"su" is only used to change to another user and if none is specified this is
the user "root" (which has no password).
You should instead use:
sudo make aptget
> I take the opportunity to ask about the use of 'su' in a normal user
> session. Also, is there another way to perform the above action?
Try to read up on the subject with "man su" and "man sudo".
> Denis
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