SSH Problems

Mike Hughes engineerhughes at comcast.net
Thu Jan 26 21:34:34 UTC 2017


Because even though I am listed as a sudoer I get the posted error on trying to use sudo.

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> On Jan 26, 2017, at 12:49, Dr. Mikeal Hughes <macmikeal at me.com> wrote:
> 
> I searched my computer and can’t find the other thread.
> 
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>> On Jan 26, 2017, at 4:35 AM, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 02:43:46PM -0600, Dr. Mikeal Hughes wrote:
>>> I can't connect at all that was what got after installing proftpd.
>>> Then I was researching and installed Openssh. But I also under my user
>>> name Macmike don't have sudo capabilities. So I don't know if that has
>>> anything to do with the issue. I am having to do everything as root
>>> since I can't sudo.
>> 
>> I doubt it has anything to do with your SSH troubles, no; it sounds like
>> you probably have multiple problems.  But you can give a user blanket
>> sudo capability by running this as root:
>> 
>>  adduser SOME-USER-NAME sudo
>> 
>>> Another thing as root if I do cd /root it will not go.
>> 
>> What is the error message?
>> 
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