[Wolves] VM Ware / Ubuntu Help

David Morley davmor2 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 14 12:17:46 GMT 2006


On 14/12/06, James Dalley <j.dalley at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
>  Hi All,
>
>  I've got Ubuntu running as a virtual machine with VMware player so as i
> have a copy i cannot do any damage with when i'm messing around, but when i
> type 'su' it asks me for my password which i enter, then it returns a cannot
> authenticate message. If i enter su then the command on the same line it
> says 'unknown id:<command>' but if i type the command on its own it will run
> but with lesser options. I'm not that competent, so am i missing something?
> Also i have 99% filled the virtual disk which is only 3Gb, is there any way
> i can increase this, maybe by getting the server version?
>
Try sudo "command" rather than su


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