Greetings all;
I find I cannot execute some parts of tde's system admin because its not asking for a sudo passwd, but roots, and root does not have a passwd set.
How can I get around this as user 1000?
Cheers, Gene Heskett
On Sunday, June 21, 2020 12:43 AM, Gene Heskett gheskett@shentel.net wrote:
Greetings all;
I find I cannot execute some parts of tde's system admin because its not asking for a sudo passwd, but roots, and root does not have a passwd set.
Set one, $ sudo passwd root
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On Sunday 21 June 2020 09:50:08 Dave Lers wrote:
On Sunday, June 21, 2020 12:43 AM, Gene Heskett gheskett@shentel.net
wrote:
Greetings all;
I find I cannot execute some parts of tde's system admin because its not asking for a sudo passwd, but roots, and root does not have a passwd set.
Set one, $ sudo passwd root
Only when booted to single status. But It let me set it right now without asking for the old pw. But then xrandr got in the way, couldn't read a valid gamma setting. xrandr is not your problem though. Now I suppose I'll have to use it for everything. And thats a right pita too as its quite a few more characters. But now I can't run synaptic from the tde menu's, as root or gene. And gksudo, my only way to run synaptic, brought up a whole new default jessie config. Jessie ??? Supposed to be stretch, call me confused.
I hope I've not broken it. But ack xset -q, I have set a longer blank/monitor shutdown, and thats an improvement, I am plumb tired of going after a fresh refill of my coffee cup, a 15 foot walk from this chair, coming back and having the monitor power down as by butt approaches the chair cushion. Now I need to go check on the missus, who'se in the shop with end stage copd. And now pneumonia.
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Cheers, Gene Heskett
Dear Gene,
it's not quite clear to me what the/your actual problem is…
Am Sonntag 21 Juni 2020 schrieb Gene Heskett:
Only when booted to single status. But It let me set it right now without asking for the old pw. But then xrandr got in the way, couldn't read a valid gamma setting. xrandr is not your problem though. Now I suppose I'll have to use it for everything. And thats a right pita too as its quite a few more characters. But now I can't run synaptic from the tde menu's, as root or gene. And gksudo, my only way to run synaptic, brought up a whole new default jessie config. Jessie ??? Supposed to be stretch, call me confused.
…but one thing comes to mind: in case you want to run an X-application (synaptic) as root, root needs to be allowed to access the user's X-session (I don't know how this is implemented by synaptic, there are probably different ways to achieve that by different apps). Maybe it's worth a try to allow root to your user's X-session with:
As user enter this command: $ xhost +si:localuser:root
From man xhost: "the server interpreted address "si:localuser:username" can be used to specify a single local user."
HTH and kind regards, Stefan
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On Saturday 27 June 2020 05:16:05 Stefan Krusche wrote:
Dear Gene,
it's not quite clear to me what the/your actual problem is…
Am Sonntag 21 Juni 2020 schrieb Gene Heskett:
Only when booted to single status. But It let me set it right now without asking for the old pw. But then xrandr got in the way, couldn't read a valid gamma setting. xrandr is not your problem though. Now I suppose I'll have to use it for everything. And thats a right pita too as its quite a few more characters. But now I can't run synaptic from the tde menu's, as root or gene. And gksudo, my only way to run synaptic, brought up a whole new default jessie config. Jessie ??? Supposed to be stretch, call me confused.
…but one thing comes to mind: in case you want to run an X-application (synaptic) as root, root needs to be allowed to access the user's X-session (I don't know how this is implemented by synaptic, there are probably different ways to achieve that by different apps). Maybe it's worth a try to allow root to your user's X-session with:
As user enter this command: $ xhost +si:localuser:root
From man xhost: "the server interpreted address "si:localuser:username" can be used to specify a single local user."
That got me back to stretch, but no new linucnc builds at master-rt.
So either the buildbots been down for a week or ?? And the first of my wheezy machines, the only other machine here that is running tde r14.0.x. just updated 62 packages including 3 from the linuxcnc buildbot, using the exact same "gksudo synaptic".
By the time I had updated all 4 of them, the three wheezy installs got an updated master-rt from the linuxcnc buildbot, but this stretch(amd64), and the buster (armhf) rpi4b didn't get any updates offered except the 6 that are locked, preempt-rt stuff.
Looks like the buildbot is having trouble with post-wheezy stuff.
I should do a git pull and try it myself as I am setup to do that. But I'm not touching that until I find out whats killing the jog dials on the rpi4b. I had it partially apart yesterday, installing a new z motor's driver alarm output into its linuxcnc config, but the jog dials are now dead, so I've no way to run 1500 lbs of 75 yo Sheldon lathe by hand. But I need to go to the machine to do that, I can't troubleshoot that with an ssh login. Machine safety yadda yadda.
So I'd better fix some breakfast and git to it.
Thanks Stefan.
HTH and kind regards, Stefan
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Cheers, Gene Heskett
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