A guest user is logged in and I/root come over and want to do
something(say, copy a specific file from my profile to the guest's
desktop) which requires root and sudo seems to be the most convenient
way of doing that.
The most convenient way of doing this is to execute su [your
username]. By default root has no password and you can't use that
username, so use your regular admin account. You will then be prompted
for your password. You can then execute what commands you wish,
perhaps prepending them with sudo, typing your password again. When
you are finished using your own account's permissions, type exit and
they will be returned to their own prompt.
On 4/20/19, Raghavendra Janivarada wrote:
> Hi Access India,
> I have a laptop running Ubuntu 16.04 on it. As system boots, loads
> with only guest session and no other user accounts are available.
> How to add an administrator account?
> Is it possible to change guest account as an administrator account?
> Hoping for your reply It is every easy to do administrative tasks from a
> guest session. The su is disabled, but they cannot disable ssh.
All you have to do is ssh into an account in the sudoers list on localhost:
ssh @localhost
where is that of the account
> Thanks
> Raghavendra
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