From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jan 9 15:40:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mrdida.yi.org (dial749.infolink.com.br [200.244.72.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21FAB37B422 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 15:40:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from academica01.gmx.net (academica01 [192.168.0.2]) by mrdida.yi.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9753C24DF; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 20:33:08 -0200 (BRST) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.2.20020109201245.037e6c00@mail.gmx.net> X-Sender: mrdida@gmx.net@mail.gmx.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 20:16:40 -0300 To: Mark Newton , Wim Livens From: Angelo Subject: Re: root without password ? Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020109114059.A61362@internode.com.au> References: <20020109004913.GB54233@krijt.livens.net> <20020109004913.GB54233@krijt.livens.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hey Mark It doesnt work here.. using tcsh.. [8:09pm] newfw[/home/maint> su - Password: [8:09pm] newfw[/root> suspend Can't suspend a login shell (yet). [8:09pm] newfw[/root> rgrs angelo >If you *really* want the ability to get root access on demand without >having to type a password 50,000 times per day, do this: > > tcsh% su > Password: > tcsh# suspend > > Suspended > tcsh% jobs > [1] + Suspended su > tcsh% fg > su > tcsh# > >So - su to root and type the password once. When you're finished with >privilieges, type "suspend" to go back to normal privileges. When you >need root privs again, type "fg". To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message