[ale] Losing Ubuntu

[Joshua Roberts]

ah I had forgotten about the su command.  I guess I don't really need to
deal with any of this.  I can just su to root whenever I want to change
stuff and then back to my account when I just want to use stuff.

And I tried editing the kernel parameters and I kept getting Error 11
unrecognized command or something like that.  I think I will stick with the
su instead of using sudo.


Thanks for the help.  I will see if I can figure out how to fix some of the
other issues I am having, if not I will ask more questions.  Thanks for all
the help.


Joshua

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Damon L. Chesser <damon at damtek.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 01:50 -0400, Joshua Roberts wrote:
> > Well, I have installed Debian with Lxde.  I like the openbox desktop.
> > But here begins the work.  I may need to reinstall to make my life
> > easier.  I chose to not allow root login on this machine.
>
> You still have root access, IIRC (I have never dissallowed root logon my
> desktop, what's the point?) you just need to su to root then run
> "visudo"
>
> add a line that says this:
>
> $USERNAME   ALL=(ALL)   ALL
>
> substitute your username for $USERNAME.  visudo takes the same commands
> as vi.  Save, log out, log in, test with sudo ifconfig
>
>
>
> > It also seems that I, joshua the user, am not allowed to access the
> > sudo command.  I am not in the sudoers file.  First I have seen that.
> > From what I have read I am going to need to boot into a live CD and
> > edit the file.  Or I can do a minimal boot into /bin/sh and then mount
> > some stuff that I need to edit the file.  Either way it seems like it
> > is going to be some work.
> >
> > Does anyone have any tips about how to best accomplish this task of
> > giving myself sudo access without a huge headache.  Maybe I am just
> > really tired because the instructions for the sudo file look really
> > confusing.  Even worse than Xorg or Xranr.  Anyway, I am giong to bed.
> > I will fight with it some more another day.  Until then I will have to
> > live with what I have since I cannot install anything else.
> >
> > Yeah for me.  I managed to F up my first real linux install.  ( After
> > this experience I do not really count Ubuntu as a serious linux
> > install.)
>
> my first Debian install (potato?) took me 30 days to get X up an
> running.  You are doing fine (and Linux is getting exponentially better
> and easier to configure).
> >
> > Joshua
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Rev. Johnny Healey
> > <rev.null at gmail.com> wrote:
> >         Ubuntu is debian unstable unstable.
> >
> >
> >         On Aug 13, 2010 10:47 AM, "jrtroberts" <jrtroberts at gmail.com>
> >         wrote:
> >         > I have decided to stop using ubuntu and Try Debian directly.
> >         Not sure
> >         > how that will affect my linux experience, but I do not see
> >         it being all
> >         > that bad.
> >
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