Network question, managing 2nd account as root

Boo · Post by **Boo** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 8:02 am

The way is via a terminal.
open terminal window.
switch user to your account.

su - your_user_name

now you can use sudo from your account.
this is the prefered way.

Boo · Post by **Boo** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 9:03 pm

you can install them from your account.

or

apt-get is you cli friend.

sudo apt-get update

you can use synaptic to find the name of the game then:

sudo apt-get install game_name

antiquexray · Post by **antiquexray** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 1:28 pm

Boo wrote: su - your_user_name

now you can use sudo from your account.
this is the prefered way.

Why the su - and not su?

scorp123 · Post by **scorp123** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 2:25 pm

antiquexray wrote:Why the su - and not su?

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man su

... is your friend

But in short: That minus "-" behind su will make sure all profile variables and login files get loaded too, as if you had logged in as that account right from start.

Or to put it another way: "su -" is cleaner than a mere "su".