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Re: Debian 10 64bit

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It seems to me that Jerry may have mistakenly typed a user rather than root password at the su (not sudo) prompt at least once, but also used the correct (root) password at least once. 

How else could changes to /etc/sudoers (which I imagine is what is meant by "the sudouse(r) file") have been saved?  


On Tue, 15 Dec 2020, at 17:34, Tixy wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-12-15 at 11:36 +0100, john doe wrote:
> > On 12/15/2020 10:19 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > > On Lu, 14 dec 20, 19:45:54, Jerry Mellon wrote:
> > > > I finally got around to installing debian 10 on my 64bit system(thus
> > > > removing the i386version I had originally instaled). The install went
> > > > well and I asked for a seperate Home particion. When I booted the system
> > > > and try to do "apt-get update and apt-get upgrade" using "sudo" it would
> > > > not let me do that. Said I was not a sudo user. I then tried "su root"
> > > > which failed as well as it said I was not a sudo user. I went to the
> > > > sudouse file and changed it to make me a user. Sudo as myself worked
> > > > fine but su root still did not work.
> > > > 
> > > > After seeing the email concering problems with sudo and su root I
> > > > decided to reload. I did but did a use whole disk (no home part).
> > > > After booting I did have to go to the sudouser file an change it again
> > > > but the su root worked with out a problem.
> > > 
> > > You probably set a root password during install.
> > > 
> > > The Debian Installer will configure 'sudo' for the first user only if
> > > you leave the root password blank. This is explained during the install.
> > 
> > That doesn't look to be the case anymore, I just installed Buster with
> > Mate and sudo is installed.
> 
> Because sudo is a recommended package of task-desktop, which is a
> dependency of task-mate-desktop. But if you gave it a root password
> during install then it didn't add the user you created at install time
> into the 'sudo' group, so no user can use sudo. (This does make me
> wonder why 'sudo' is recommended by task-desktop in the first place.)
> 
> I installed Bullseye LXDE yesterday, with recommended packages
> disabled, and didn't get sudo installed (because I gave a root password
> during install).
> 
> -- 
> Tixy
> 
>

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Debian 10 64bit Jerry Mellon <jfmellon@netscape.net> - 2020-12-15 01:50 +0100
  Re: Debian 10 64bit Peter Ehlert <peter@sdi-baja.com> - 2020-12-15 03:00 +0100
  Re: Debian 10 64bit john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2020-12-15 08:10 +0100
  Re: Debian 10 64bit Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-12-15 10:30 +0100
    Re: Debian 10 64bit john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2020-12-15 11:40 +0100
      Re: Debian 10 64bit Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-12-15 12:40 +0100
      Re: Debian 10 64bit Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2020-12-15 18:40 +0100
        Re: Debian 10 64bit "Gareth Evans" <donotspam@fastmail.fm> - 2020-12-15 19:10 +0100
          Re: Debian 10 64bit Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-12-15 19:20 +0100
            Re: Debian 10 64bit Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-12-15 19:50 +0100
              Re: Debian 10 64bit Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2020-12-15 21:20 +0100
                Re: Debian 10 64bit <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-12-16 10:50 +0100
            Re: Debian 10 64bit "Gareth Evans" <donotspam@fastmail.fm> - 2020-12-15 19:50 +0100
            Re: Debian 10 64bit "Gareth Evans" <garethevans@fastmail.fm> - 2020-12-15 20:00 +0100
          Re: Debian 10 64bit Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-12-15 22:00 +0100
        Re: Debian 10 64bit john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2020-12-15 19:40 +0100
          Re: Debian 10 64bit Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-12-15 20:40 +0100
            Re: Debian 10 64bit Keith Bainbridge <ke1thozgroups@gmx.com> - 2020-12-16 11:20 +0100
              Re: Debian 10 64bit deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-12-16 11:40 +0100
              Re: Debian 10 64bit Peter Ehlert <peter@sdi-baja.com> - 2020-12-16 15:30 +0100
              Re: Debian 10 64bit David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-12-16 22:50 +0100
              Re: Debian 10 64bit Steven Mainor <steve@degga.net> - 2020-12-17 12:30 +0100
          Re: Debian 10 64bit David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-12-16 23:10 +0100
            Re: Debian 10 64bit Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-12-17 01:20 +0100
              Re: Debian 10 64bit Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2020-12-17 11:00 +0100
            Re: Debian 10 64bit <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-12-17 16:10 +0100
              Re: Debian 10 64bit Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-12-17 16:20 +0100
                Re: Debian 10 64bit David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-12-17 17:30 +0100
                Re: Debian 10 64bit <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-12-17 17:40 +0100
                Re: Debian 10 64bit steef <debian.linux@home.nl> - 2020-12-17 23:00 +0100
                Re: Debian 10 64bit David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-12-17 17:40 +0100
                Re: Debian 10 64bit <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-12-18 21:10 +0100
                Re: Debian 10 64bit <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-12-18 21:00 +0100
                Re: Debian 10 64bit David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-12-19 21:10 +0100
                Re: Debian 10 64bit Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2020-12-20 18:10 +0100
                Re: Debian 10 64bit Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-12-21 14:10 +0100

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