Han Soo Chang wrote:
Probably the upstream problem was resolved and this was then allowed.
When external influences cause success and failure outside of your
carefully designed experiment it can cause a lot of confusion.
I would like to think so, too. But, unfortunately, the error is
On 2012-05-03, Han Soo Chang hansoo7...@gmail.com wrote:
So, I wonder whether this is because
(1) I mishandled my set up of sudo
The experts would need, I should think, to see your sudoers file to
confirm the least fanciful of your hypotheses.
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Han Soo Chang wrote:
Here is what happened.
$sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
then I typed my password.
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ERROR: wget failed to download
This is unllkely to have anything to do with either sudo or su. I
think this failure is unrelated.
I checked the following
$
Thank you very much for your very thoughtful comments, Bob.
I truly appreciate them.
Actually, I was about to unsubscribe from the list when I found them. :-)
Probably the upstream problem was resolved and this was then allowed.
When external influences cause success and failure outside of your
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 05:07:26PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 05:05:28PM +0900, Han Soo Chang wrote:
Thanks for your help.
It was just that I needed to apt-get install as root, not sudo apt-get.
The following command
# apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
Thanks for your response.
Yes, I installed sudo, and edited the confiugration file using visudo.
That was easy.
And I have been using sudo in all the cases where I needed to be root.
I believed that it gives me better security.
However, in this particular case of installing flashplugin-nonfree,
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 04:37:16PM +0900, Han Soo Chang wrote:
Thanks for your response.
Yes, I installed sudo, and edited the confiugration file using visudo.
That was easy.
And I have been using sudo in all the cases where I needed to be root.
I believed that it gives me better security.
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 6:30 AM, Indulekha indule...@theunworthy.com wrote:
I don't think it's a bug...
If you add your user to the sudo group and use the line:
yourusername ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
in /etc/sudoers, everything should work and you'll
get no password prompt. Of course,
I thank you all for your help. But there seems to be a big
misunderstanding.
The issue is not how to use sudo or how to set up no-password.
If you could see my original report, it would be clear. But it seems to
have fallen off the thread.
Here is what happened.
$sudo apt-get install
Thanks for your help.
It was just that I needed to apt-get install as root, not sudo apt-get.
The following command
# apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
worked just fine.
$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
failed because the invoked script probably did not have the write permission
for
On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 05:05:28PM +0900, Han Soo Chang wrote:
Thanks for your help.
It was just that I needed to apt-get install as root, not sudo apt-get.
The following command
# apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
worked just fine.
$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
failed
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