On 11/06/2016 12:12 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> You want the "export" to work under *your* shell. Try the line >> without the "sudo." What shell are you running under? #echo $shell? > /bin/bash >> Export is part of the bash/sh. It'snot a standalone command. > My bad, I had forgotten that. Can I blame oldtimers?
Why certainly. ;-) >> The "synaptic-pkexec" is looking for the root password, not your sudo >> passwordwhen you run it that way. Have you tried sudo >> synaptic-pkexec? You may have to edit /etc/sudoers to give your >> account the privs to be able to run those commands. > Thats all been done Mark, and I have, as user 1001, zero problems running > anything else that needs root privs. I've even ran shadowconfig on after > each addition while looking for a solution. Attr's are all 0755, it > ought to Just Run. But pam-authentification thinks otherwise. > > Thinking out loud, maybe I need to sudo bash, then su pi -c "yadda > yadda". Worth a try. Nope, pi can't open a display. Sigh. > > Thanks Mark > > Cheers, Gene Heskett I ran into this problem once before. There was an entry in one of the /etc/pam.d files that was causing me grief. Don't remember what it was. dmesg might have some clues as to what pam module(s) is/are not allowing the authentication to go through. Have you tried su'ing to root and running synaptic-pkexec? Cheers, Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors Access to Intel Xeon Phi processor-based developer platforms. With one year of Intel Parallel Studio XE. Training and support from Colfax. Order your platform today. http://sdm.link/xeonphi _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
