On Thursday 17 December 2020 12:37:43 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 17.12.20 um 16:38 schrieb Gene Heskett: > >> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=905564 > > > > Its of no help on this stretch install. > > gene@coyote:~$ sudo -i > > [sudo] password for gene: > > root@coyote:~$ su amanda -c "geany bak-indices-configs" > > configuration error - unknown item 'ALWAYS_SET_PATH' (notify > > administrator) > > > > So where should it be put, and whose perms on stretch? > > my google finds among other things: > > https://metabubble.net/linux/how-to-really-restore-legacy-behavior-of- >su-in-debian-buster/ > > See the trick at the end > Yes I see it. This doesn't seem to affect my sudo -i to root., so I'm wondering do I put that in root's .bashrc, or amanda's .bashrc? root sorta make sense, but stuff like this doesn't always "make sense".
And will that screw up a "sudo -E synaptic"? They've made that ever harder to do on a no root password system. > - > > https://wiki.debian.org/NewInBuster ... > > I know, you run stretch. Are you sure you didn't maybe pull in more > recent packages, maybe via some additional repository? Copyright 2019 by Maurice E. Heskett Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
