Hi Gene, Is there a reason why you can't just create a password for root? Would that solve your problem?
Ken Kenneth Lerman 55 Main Street Newtown, CT 06470 On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 9:45 PM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> 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. > > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
