Get Out Of Jail Free!

[Janina Sajka]

On Mon, 20 May 2002, Octavian Rasnita wrote:

> Q: How to become root in another console?

Use Ctrl-Alt-FX (where X is a number 1 to 6) meaning use the
function keys on the top row of the qwerty keyboard. You know
what function keys are, right?

Use this key cvombination to go to a console where you are not
logged in and login as root.

Alternatively, I believe you wrote the other day that you telnet
to your linux machine from your Windows machine? Well, if emacs
seems to go bad on you, go to your Windows machine and open a
telnet session to your Linux machine. Just because emacs isn't
talking doesn't mean your machine is dead.

If you're already logged in via telnet from Windows as whatever
you use for your username, type:

su -

and provide the root password.

Actually, there's no reason not to open several telnet sessions
from your Windows machine. Your Windows is capable of that, isn't
it?
> Q: How can I read the screen if emacspeak is not speaking? I want to find
> out the PID of the process I should kill.
> 
In a different console or a different telnet session. You can
open more than one at a time, you know. This is Linux, not
Windows.