Re: Sudo

["Harold Hartley" <wheelie207@ownmail.net>]

I’m reading the thread. And I did fix it by re-installing with non-graphic install. The first time was a graphical install.

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020, at 06:54, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 04:33:21PM +1100, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
> > So sudo is installed.
> > 
> > What happens when you type
> > 
> > su
> > 
> > in a term?
> > 
> > 
> > If you are asked for a password, type it in and enter.
> > 
> > When there type
> > 
> > usermod -a -G sudo charles - looks to be your user name
> > 
> > exit
> > 
> > Then try sudo again.  You should get request for charles password.
> 
> Charles would have to log out and log in again, to pick up the new
> group membership.  Or use something like "exec su - charles" in a
> terminal to reset the session privileges in that one window only.
> 
> Also, Debian can add an existing user to an existing group with
> "adduser username groupname".  See adduser(8).
> 
> At this point, however, I think everyone's talking to a ghost.  I
> don't recall the OP *ever* showing us the command they typed and
> the error message they got.  They also claimed they "fixed" the
> problem by "reinstalling".  I doubt they're even reading this
> thread.
> 
>

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