On Mon, 2019-09-09 at 14:24 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 09 September 2019 13:58:03 Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 01:47:30PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Tell that to pam. Even after editing sudoers, pam won't allow yoou > > > to do squawt as sudo root. BTDT. > > > > If you have a serious complaint or question, you must provide > details. > > Also true, but those details are close to a year old, and my chances > of > remembering it ala copy/paste accuracy are slim and none, so at this > late date, I'll not inflict my typo's on you. > > > Your continued pattern of just ranting "it didn't work" for EVERY > > issue you encounter makes it impossible to help you. > > > > In Debian, universal sudo access is granted to any user in the sudo > > group. If you want to be able to use sudo to run any command as any > > user, add your user account to the sudo group. Either by running > > "adduser $LOGNAME sudo", or by editing the file with "vigr". > > I should paint that on the wall. :) I've been trying by adding me to > sudoers, but that seems to not work as expected. > > > Then, log out and back in to get your new group memberships. > > A detail I forgot, my bad. > > > > If that doesn't work in Raspbian, well, too damned bad. This is a > > Debian mailing list. All we know is Debian. > > Touche` However, debian is in effect the broodstock for a lot of > these > variations, so what works for debian has a middling high chance of > working with the *pians. > > > > > For safety, you should use "vipw", "vipw -s" and "vigr" to > perform > > > > those edits, but it's not actually required on Debian. > > > > > > Screwed up already, I used vipw to put me in front of pi, but now > it > > > wants genes passwd, which has not been set. So I'll have to bring > > > that chip to a reader and edit it. > > > > > > Is there an order to make all this just work? But I'll have to > wait > > > till realtimepi is done. Estimated another couple hours. > > > > If you duplicate the lines in both /etc/passwd AND /etc/shadow, your > > password for "gene" will be the same as the password for "pi". > > Because they both use the same salted hash in the shadow file. You > > know, the big-ass $1$abcdefgh$crapola string that you saw when you > > edited the file? It's kinda hard to miss. > > Yup, big sore thumb. But I'll have to fix it in a card reader now.
You might try (from the pi account): sudo -l (or) sudo bash --login passwd I just did it on a brand new fresh raspbian-buster-lite; it worked fine and let me su - (with the newly established password) and presumably would let me log in directly. The approach is a bit old-school and eventually I will set the image up to allow ssh as the only network access, ssh to root from the local host only, and no passwords allowed, as on other systems here. > When > RealtimePi has finished. > > Thanks Greg. > > 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) > If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law > respectable. > - Louis D. Brandeis > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
