Timeline for su does not change user but does not respond with an error either
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| S Jun 10, 2022 at 14:19 | history | suggested | CommunityBot | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
change admin to root as per comment.
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| Jun 10, 2022 at 11:37 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| May 22, 2022 at 17:26 | comment | added | G-Man Says 'Reinstate Monica' |
(Cont’d) … (4) The heart of your answer is that the target user might have a pseudo-shell entry in /etc/passwd that prevents the account from being usable. This answer has been presented already (arguably, twice). (5) Logging out and in again should not be necessary. (6) Your statement “It will show the user again” is peculiar — the user was never hidden.
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| May 22, 2022 at 17:26 | comment | added | G-Man Says 'Reinstate Monica' |
(1) The question says that the OP is already logged in as root — why complicate things by adding ssh? (2) The OP is a root user, so he probably understands that you typically need to enter a password in order to login; you don’t need to spell that out. (2b) And please don’t say “admin password” when you mean “root password”. Some systems have an “admin” account that’s separate from the “root” account, so it’s confusing if you use the names interchangeably. (3) If you’re going to show a shell prompt for root, it should be # . … (Cont’d)
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| Feb 24, 2020 at 7:17 | history | edited | Cherry | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 6 characters in body
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| Feb 19, 2020 at 12:25 | review | Late answers | |||
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| Feb 19, 2020 at 12:15 | history | edited | Paulo Tomé | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Formatted text.
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| Feb 19, 2020 at 12:10 | review | First posts | |||
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| Feb 19, 2020 at 12:09 | history | answered | Cherry | CC BY-SA 4.0 |