On Monday 07 November 2016 07:52:29 Mark wrote: > 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? > That also fails as root can't open a display.
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