On Saturday 23 September 2017 04:36:49 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > On 23/09/17 05:45, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Months at a time here, but anytime I need to do anything as root > > that involves more than ncurses graphics, I have to go to the > > machine and do it there, and its a stand-up job with very poor gfx > > due to the pi's > > In that case investigate what's stopping you from logging in directly > as root. It's probably a setting in sshd_config and another in the > display manager's configuration file. > > Otherwise if you've got an SSH session as non-root you should be able > to run arbitrary non-root X11 programs over it i.e. > tunelling/forwarding X11 over SSH. Once that is working, you should be > able to use a desktop-specific graphical variant of sudo to run a > program as root: in the case of KDE it's kdesudo. Or alternatively, in > an SSH session try sudo -E someprogram which works in many cases. > Thats something I haven't tried, I'll check the sudo man page, thanks.
> I've never had problems with dd provided that the USB->SDcard > adapter's OK: what command are you using? The usual syntax: dd if=somefile bs=512 of=somedevice, and in the case of sd card copying, since no 2 are alike so I usually look at the src's declared size in dmesg and set count=that-5k so it doesn't error out copying a pny 32GB to a Sandisk 32GB. Etcher, which is faster, has the same problem & pitches a fit when it can't find room to put the last 10 sectors. I've had poor luck with sandisk anything though. pny, samsung is good stuff. So I bought pny last night. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
