[PLUG] Open SSH - Signing on at root

drew wymore drew.wymore at gmail.com
Tue Mar 23 16:25:45 UTC 2010


On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Scott Howard <showard at k-hlaw.com> wrote:
> In using Open SSH to a linux box, I get the user directory.  I can move
> up to the root but cannot transfer files or work.  How do I become the
> root user.
>
> Scott Howard
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this will give you a root shell
su -

or just su which won't be a login shell which is fine if you don't
need all root's env vars and such

or sudo $command ?



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