* [9fans] Learning my way around P9
@ 2006-01-06 4:12 Marina Brown
2006-01-06 5:18 ` Skip Tavakkolian
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From: Marina Brown @ 2006-01-06 4:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
A quickie - if i need to do something a 'sys' and i am logged in as
another user - as in
i booted as glenda - how do i change users without rebooting.
-- Marina Brown
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* Re: [9fans] Learning my way around P9
2006-01-06 4:12 [9fans] Learning my way around P9 Marina Brown
@ 2006-01-06 5:18 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-01-06 5:22 ` Skip Tavakkolian
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From: Skip Tavakkolian @ 2006-01-06 5:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
> A quickie - if i need to do something a 'sys' and i am logged in as
> another user - as in
> i booted as glenda - how do i change users without rebooting.
you could either add yourself (or glenda) to group sys, or if you have
a cpu+auth, then you can 'cpu -u sys' or drawterm as sys.
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* Re: [9fans] Learning my way around P9
2006-01-06 5:18 ` Skip Tavakkolian
@ 2006-01-06 5:22 ` Skip Tavakkolian
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From: Skip Tavakkolian @ 2006-01-06 5:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
>> A quickie - if i need to do something a 'sys' and i am logged in as
>> another user - as in
>> i booted as glenda - how do i change users without rebooting.
>
> you could either add yourself (or glenda) to group sys, or if you have
> a cpu+auth, then you can 'cpu -u sys' or drawterm as sys.
i should add that if this is a stand-alone term, then any permission
checking can be sidestepped by telling the file server to turn off
permission checking.
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