Re: installation help urgent
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Celejar wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:53:09 +0100
> Joe Hart <j.hart@orange.nl> wrote:
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>> Greg Folkert wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 10:43 -0500, Celejar wrote:
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>>>> Or 'sudo dpkg -i xxxx.deb' from the cli.
>>> Only if sudo is installed and setup properly.
>
> If not, then simply 'su -c dpkg -i xxxx.deb'.
>
>> You're right about that. It's one of the first things I did after
>> installation because I came from the Ubuntu world where sudo is the only
>> way to do things. Funny though because I got sick of typing it all the
>> time and found myself just doing sudo -i so I would get a root prompt.
>>
>> Actually there are some commands that you can't do through sudo that you
>> can from root, even though the sudoers file lists (ALL) ALL.
>>
>> iptables and echoing to /proc are examples.
>
> 'sudo /sbin/iptables -N newchain', 'sudo /sbin/iptables -X newchain'
> both work fine for me; what doesn't work for you? Can you give any
> other examples of things that don't work with sudo? I've never
> encountered any.
>
> Celejar
>
>
No, I can't give any examples, because since I switched to Debian, I
have not encountered any commands that didn't work. When I used Kubuntu
I did encounter problems with setting up iptables masquerades with sudo,
and had to do a sudo -i to get a root prompt to do it. Strange behavior
to say the least.
One of the things that I really like about Debian compared to Ubuntu is
that it gets the sudo vs. kdesu/gksu correct. No matter if the root is
enabled or not, on a Ubuntu system they all want the USER password,
which is in my book not the best way to handle it.
It does make it easier if one has a poor memory however, and can't keep
track of more than one password.
Joe
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