Is there a reason you can't download this and extract it using mc (can do
it on an x86 machine):
http://ftp.redsleeve.org/pub/el6/latest/base/RPMS/sudo-1.8.6p3-20.el6.armv5tel.rpm

At least that way you know where it's coming from. :-)

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 1:23 PM, Robert Moskowitz <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Or you can email me the sudo bin for RSEL6 and I can try and run it from a
> mounted usb drive.
>
> On 12/15/2016 04:44 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>
> Does the cubieboard even use grub? I thought that was still 64-bit UEFI
> only, and certainly not available on EL6. I suspect what you need to do is
> adjust the boot parameter through u-boot.
>
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 2:50 AM, Robert Moskowitz <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 12/14/2016 06:33 PM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>>
>> You could just edit /etc/shadow and remove the password field.
>>
>>
>> That is on the sata drive.  I will have to unplug the sata, hook it up to
>> a sata/usb adapter to gain access to the shadow file from another system.
>> Part of the reason I went with the Cubieboards was the sata interface.
>>
>> It looks like there is a file in /boot/grub/loader that has the options
>> entry and at that point it is booting off the sd card.  So I think I can
>> get it into single user mode.  Will be trying this tomorrow.
>>
>>
>> On 14 Dec 2016 22:30, "Robert Moskowitz" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I connected a monitor and keyboard and rebooted the one system.  Was just
>> given the option list that I cannot edit.
>>
>> So what file on the sd card do I edit to add 'single'?
>>
>> thank you
>>
>>
>>
>> On 12/13/2016 11:19 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>
>>> I have been off doing other stuff and no time to work with arm systems
>>> and builds and my systems were just working fine until...
>>>
>>> First discovered no sudo.  I always had used su and never noticed no
>>> sudo.  Is there someway someone could send me the bin and I could run it
>>> from a usb drive from my user account?
>>>
>>> But since no sudo, I wanted to boot into single user mode to change
>>> root's password.  I hook up to the console serial port and power cycle the
>>> server.  I get a selection list of
>>>
>>> Centos Options
>>> 1:        centos
>>>
>>> No way to up arrow and press A to append single mode to that.
>>>
>>> How do I get the system to boot into single mode?
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> Bob
>>>
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