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Re: rock64, date is UTC, how to make EST (s/b UTC-5)



On Monday 23 July 2018 06:09:01 John Holland wrote:

> >> shot. It can't be any worse of a C.F. than the ayufan builds with
> >> its pre-allocated user 1000.
> >
> > Although having a preallocated user 1000 is the standard "Debian
> > Way", the objective being that you can telnet (later SSH) in using
> > that user and then  sudo su  to get root (fouled up on some versions
> > that don't add user 1000 to sudoers). For quite a long time
>
> The same effect can be achieved by supplementing the user in question
> with the group sudo. With that there is no need to edit sudoers.
>
> John

But that does not fix the x server being locked and unusable when logged 
in from a comfy chair because user 1000 is not the same name.  So you 
are limited to ncurses at best for a gui. And that sucks somewhere 
around 10-35 Torr.


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