Re: more problems with su and sudo

2025-07-01 Thread Greg
On 2025-07-01, Titus Newswanger wrote: > I've had that problem once or twice where a newly created password would > not work. I've always suspected typos or undefined caps-lock state. I've had the problem. I have a en_US.UTF-8 locale and a French keyboard. Once, moons ago, when doing an alt-F1

Re: more problems with su and sudo

2025-07-01 Thread David Christensen
On 7/1/25 04:25, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2025 at 21:36:14 -0700, David Christensen wrote: The next time you log in, sudo(8) should work: $ sudo pia-linux-3.6.1-08339.run Even if sudo works, that command won't. It would need to be something like: sudo chmod +x pia-linux-3.6

Re: more problems with su and sudo

2025-07-01 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jun 30, 2025 at 21:36:14 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > The next time you log in, sudo(8) should work: > > $ sudo pia-linux-3.6.1-08339.run Even if sudo works, that command won't. It would need to be something like: sudo chmod +x pia-linux-3.6.1-08339.run sudo ./pia-linux-3.6

Re: more problems with su and sudo

2025-06-30 Thread David Christensen
On 6/30/25 18:58, Maureen L Thomas wrote: Ok guys, I finally had to reinstall Debian bookworm and lost all my passwords.  I did get a refund on the VPN but have spent the last three days changing all my passwords to get into the bills and pay them.  I went for PIA VPN and followed instructions

Re: more problems with su and sudo

2025-06-30 Thread Titus Newswanger
On 6/30/25 21:55, Titus Newswanger wrote: The time I accidentally locked myself out of sudo, I mounted the locked hdd on another linux pc and edited the shadow file, copying the hash for sudo with the known password to the drive with the unknown password. I would not recommend trying that unl

Re: more problems with su and sudo

2025-06-30 Thread Titus Newswanger
On 6/30/25 20:58, Maureen L Thomas wrote: Ok guys, I finally had to reinstall Debian bookworm and lost all my passwords.  I did get a refund on the VPN but have spent the last three days changing all my passwords to get into the bills and pay them.  I went for PIA VPN and followed instructio

more problems with su and sudo

2025-06-30 Thread Maureen L Thomas
Ok guys, I finally had to reinstall Debian bookworm and lost all my passwords.  I did get a refund on the VPN but have spent the last three days changing all my passwords to get into the bills and pay them.  I went for PIA VPN and followed instructions to get me into the root area. When I went