Re: Authentication failed after su-

From	Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Authentication failed after su-
Date	2022-02-28 21:20 +0100
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Dearie

Thanks for your offer of help; however.....

> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2022 at 3:10 AM
> From: "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Authentication failed after su-
>
>
> If you use sudo: prefix the above command with sudo
>
> It may be that you need
>
> su - -l -c "rest of the line"
>
> su alone doesn't always get you root equivalent: the default changed a while
> ago now so su - is needed.

Firstly, I tried the command:

sudo su - -l -c "rest of the line"

It didn't work

Next, I tried:

sudo su- -l -c "rest of the line"

It didn't work either

On the third try, I typed:

sudo -i

followed by "rest of the line" (I ignored -l -c because if I included them, the "rest of the line" wouldn't be executed. Besides I don't know what the arguments -l -c stand for.)

Alternatively, one could type:

sudo su


Best regards.

Stella

Thread

Authentication failed after su- Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2022-02-28 20:00 +0100
  Re: Authentication failed after su- "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2022-02-28 20:20 +0100
    Re: Authentication failed after su- Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2022-02-28 21:20 +0100
      Re: Authentication failed after su- Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-02-28 22:30 +0100
        Re: Authentication failed after su- Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2022-02-28 23:50 +0100
          Re: Authentication failed after su- Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-03-01 00:40 +0100
            Re: Authentication failed after su- Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2022-03-01 06:20 +0100
              Re: Authentication failed after su- Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2022-03-01 10:30 +0100
                Re: Authentication failed after su- Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2022-03-01 12:10 +0100
                Re: Authentication failed after su- David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-03-01 17:20 +0100
                Re: Authentication failed after su- Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2022-03-02 08:50 +0100
                Re: Authentication failed after su- Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2022-03-01 17:20 +0100
        Re: Authentication failed after su- Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2022-03-01 07:10 +0100

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