[ale] Losing Ubuntu

[Damon L. Chesser]

On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 13:04 -0400, Joshua Roberts wrote:
> ah I had forgotten about the su command.  I guess I don't really need
> to deal with any of this.  I can just su to root whenever I want to
> change stuff and then back to my account when I just want to use
> stuff.
> 
> And I tried editing the kernel parameters and I kept getting Error 11
> unrecognized command or something like that.  I think I will stick
> with the su instead of using sudo.

Well, seeing the other responses to your sudo/su/root question, I am
wondering if I am right, at least I am covered, I did say "IIRC". 
> 
> 
> Thanks for the help.  I will see if I can figure out how to fix some
> of the other issues I am having, if not I will ask more questions.
> Thanks for all the help.
> 
> 
> Joshua
> 
> On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Damon L. Chesser <damon at damtek.com>
> wrote:
>         On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 01:50 -0400, Joshua Roberts wrote:
>         > Well, I have installed Debian with Lxde.  I like the openbox
>         desktop.
>         > But here begins the work.  I may need to reinstall to make
>         my life
>         > easier.  I chose to not allow root login on this machine.
>         
>         
>         You still have root access, IIRC (I have never dissallowed
>         root logon my
>         desktop, what's the point?) you just need to su to root then
>         run
>         "visudo"
>         
>         add a line that says this:
>         
>         $USERNAME   ALL=(ALL)   ALL
>         
>         substitute your username for $USERNAME.  visudo takes the same
>         commands
>         as vi.  Save, log out, log in, test with sudo ifconfig
>         
>         
>         
>         > It also seems that I, joshua the user, am not allowed to
>         access the
>         > sudo command.  I am not in the sudoers file.  First I have
>         seen that.
>         > From what I have read I am going to need to boot into a live
>         CD and
>         > edit the file.  Or I can do a minimal boot into /bin/sh and
>         then mount
>         > some stuff that I need to edit the file.  Either way it
>         seems like it
>         > is going to be some work.
>         >
>         > Does anyone have any tips about how to best accomplish this
>         task of
>         > giving myself sudo access without a huge headache.  Maybe I
>         am just
>         > really tired because the instructions for the sudo file look
>         really
>         > confusing.  Even worse than Xorg or Xranr.  Anyway, I am
>         giong to bed.
>         > I will fight with it some more another day.  Until then I
>         will have to
>         > live with what I have since I cannot install anything else.
>         >
>         > Yeah for me.  I managed to F up my first real linux
>         install.  ( After
>         > this experience I do not really count Ubuntu as a serious
>         linux
>         > install.)
>         
>         
>         my first Debian install (potato?) took me 30 days to get X up
>         an
>         running.  You are doing fine (and Linux is getting
>         exponentially better
>         and easier to configure).
>         
>         >
>         > Joshua
>         >
>         > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Rev. Johnny Healey
>         > <rev.null at gmail.com> wrote:
>         >         Ubuntu is debian unstable unstable.
>         >
>         >
>         >         On Aug 13, 2010 10:47 AM, "jrtroberts"
>         <jrtroberts at gmail.com>
>         >         wrote:
>         >         > I have decided to stop using ubuntu and Try Debian
>         directly.
>         >         Not sure
>         >         > how that will affect my linux experience, but I do
>         not see
>         >         it being all
>         >         > that bad.
>         >
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