Re: Debian 10 64bit

[Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 06:39:29PM +0000, Gareth Evans wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> Thanks.  Apologies if I'm missing something, but I don't understand how this situation could have arisen other than because of password errors somewhere or other.
> 
> Jerry said:
> 
> > 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. 
> 
> Surely su doesn't require sudo?  

I'm guessing some parts of Jerry's text contain errors.  This would be
one of the more likely bits.