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* [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
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
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
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
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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