On Thursday 17 November 2016 21:45:00 Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings arm experts; > > Raspian has a showstopper in its package management dept. > > 1. In spite of being able to do about 99% of the stuff with sudo, over > an ssh -Y login, there is one glaring omission. There is no reason > even when X is not running, why I shouldn't be able to run > synaptic-pkexec with it exporting the gui window to what ever machine > I am logged into it from. > > Except its asking for the root pw, and root doesn't have one. > > Sudo bash gets me root, but then root can't open the display, so I am > stuck with the text based apt. > > Does anyone have a suggestion for a fix? Having a gui to manage > packages makes it a heck of a lot easier to do.
I may have convinced google to spit out a tut on this. <http://vicpimakers.ca/tutorials/raspbian/change-the-raspbian-root-password/> I'll give it a shot tomorrow. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
