From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 3 8:21:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freedom.cybertouch.org (freedom.cybertouch.org [216.183.4.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC11014D5E for ; Mon, 3 May 1999 08:21:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lnb@cybertouch.org) Received: from wired (wired.cybertouch.org [216.183.4.3]) by freedom.cybertouch.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA15271; Mon, 3 May 1999 11:21:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199905031521.LAA15271@freedom.cybertouch.org> From: "Lanny Baron" To: media@mail1.nai.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 11:22:10 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: logging on as root (was: getting warning on start-up/can't find files) Reply-To: lnb@cybertouch.org In-reply-to: References: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > How do I log on as root if I'm already logged on?? The only way I seem to > be able to do that is if I hit the "PrintScrn/SysRq" key. Is that the > proper way, or is there a command in UNIX?? > Assuming you mean logged on, meaning logged on as a "normal" user, type su or su - then you will be prompted for the root passwd. Lanny Baron http://freedom.cybertouch.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message