On Saturday 19 November 2016 13:21:34 Kenneth Lerman wrote: > 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
BTDT, but ssh from root is enjoined as its a huge security hole for one, and once root has logged in, he has no permissions to connect to a different Display. The one thing I have not tried is to remove the x for root in the /etc/passwd file. > > 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
