On Lu, 14 dec 20, 19:45:54, Jerry Mellon wrote:
> I finally got around to installing debian 10 on my 64bit system(thus
> removing the i386version I had originally instaled). The install went
> well and I asked for a seperate Home particion. When I booted the system
> and try to do "apt-get update and apt-get upgrade" using "sudo" it would
> not let me do that. Said I was not a sudo user. I then tried "su root"
> which failed as well as it said I was not a sudo user. I went to the
> sudouse file and changed it to make me a user. Sudo as myself worked
> fine but su root still did not work.
>
> After seeing the email concering problems with sudo and su root I
> decided to reload. I did but did a use whole disk (no home part).
> After booting I did have to go to the sudouser file an change it again
> but the su root worked with out a problem.
You probably set a root password during install.
The Debian Installer will configure 'sudo' for the first user only if
you leave the root password blank. This is explained during the install.
If you want to use sudo even if you did set a root password on Debian
this can be very easily done with:
adduser jerry sudo
(assuming your username is jerry, of course)
Kind regards,
Andrei
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