From: Lyndon <generalmooseance@vivaldi.net>
To: community-en@lists.altlinux.org
Subject: Re: [Comm-en] sudo/su/etc setup | Re: Installation Issues
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2021 15:14:22 -0800
Message-ID: <7244f64eab637a7a5bed53d5932c47bc42be3ce6.camel@vivaldi.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211230231129.GJ13716@imap.altlinux.org>
Thanks for your prompt reply and help Michael. Much appreciated.
regards, Lyndon
On Fri, 2021-12-31 at 02:11 +0300, Michael Shigorin wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 02:08:39PM -0800, Lyndon wrote:
> > One time I did get ALT installed ok but I have this one main
> > issue which always comes up after install. I cannot use the
> > terminal as I keep getting the message, " This user is not in
> > the sudoers list. This incident will be reported.
>
> sudo(8) gets setup out-of-box in http://getalt.org/en/simply
> flavour but it's generally considered up to the local root
> to do that or not (unlike what e.g. Ubuntu does); the commonly
> recommended way is to use su(8) -- note that ALT still holds to
> how it was written down back then and our su(8) insists that
> only the "su -" form resets the environment variables including
> PATH and HOME to correspond to the target user's settings,
> "su" keeps those.
>
> Some of us still prefer to set su(8)'s permissions so that it's
> not a SUID binary anymore through:
>
> # control su restricted
>
> and using sshd to switch to root via their ssh keypair with its
> passphrase, optionally with ssh-agent and ssh-askpass (e.g.,
> run ssh-keygen -t ed25519 and add the resulting pubkey line
> to /root/.ssh/authorized_keys and then ssh root@localhost).
>
> > So far I have not been able to fix this issue and for now,
> > at least, I have had to install another operating system,
> > Arcolinux, in the meantime.
> >
> > I would like to be able to reinstall sometime ALT Linux but
> > need to be able to use the terminal. Any ideas on how to fix
> > this ?
>
> Just use the terminal but set up sudo if you need;
> through visudo(8), maybe in a form like this:
>
> # EDITOR=mcedit visudo
>
> See also:
> * http://altlinux.org/su- (in Russian though)
> * http://en.altlinux.org/control
> * man sudo.conf
> * man visudo
>
> > Thanks so much. Otherwise, a great distro !!
> > Happy New Year to you all.
>
> Wish you a Happy New Year and merry Christmas, mate :-)
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-30 23:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-30 22:08 [Comm-en] " Lyndon
2021-12-30 23:11 ` [Comm-en] sudo/su/etc setup | " Michael Shigorin
2021-12-30 23:14 ` Lyndon [this message]
2021-12-31 13:06 ` Michael Shigorin
2021-12-31 21:36 ` Lyndon
2021-12-31 21:51 ` Lyndon
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