installed a little kde, it switched to it on the reboot, and most stuff is missing, no access to a shell of any kind

Tom H tomh0665 at gmail.com
Tue Dec 15 06:57:50 UTC 2009


>>>> But, now I have another problem.  I'm trying to install amanda, but no
>>>> matter what I do to the user amanda using vim to fix /etc/sudoers and
>>>> /etc/group, I cannot get into /home/amanda to actually do the
>>>> installation, which for some portions of it requires a real root
>>>> account.  Whats the best way to  fix that so I can actually do an 'su
>>>> -'?

>>I know NOTHING about amanda but if you really need root to install it
>>and do not want to enable root, you can use "sudo su -" or "sudo -i"
>>and you will be root until you type "exit" or do "ctrl-d".

> Amanda is the Advanced Maryland Automatic Disk Archiver & hails back probably
> 20 years, still in constant development.  New snapshots are released 2-4
> times a week.

> Printed for reference, many many thanks. I didn't really want to create a
> root login, cuz the last time I did that and tried to remove it, the only way
> I could remove it was by a bare metal re-install.

> sudo -i, I take it is the immortal option, won't time out in a few minutes?

> How about the sudu su -?

Thanks. I know what amanda is, but I have never installed or used it -
so know nothing about it...

"sudo -i" and "sudo su -" are equivalent and do not time out. It is as
if you have enabled root, albeit temporarily.

For reference, to re-disable root
sudo passwd -d
sudo passwd -l
should do it.




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