* [9fans] Learning my way around P9 @ 2006-01-06 4:12 Marina Brown 2006-01-06 5:18 ` Skip Tavakkolian 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* 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. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* 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. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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