Why?

What's the end goal? What are you trying to achieve?

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Alexander

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On Tue, Jul 9, 2024, 10:17 Michael <bmi...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Good question! I want to disable sudo while allowing its alias to work
>
> On Tue, Jul 9, 2024 at 12:29 PM Snyder, Alexander J <
> alexan...@snyderfamily.co> wrote:
>
>> I think I lost the thread of this discussion somewhere along the way.
>> What is your desired outcome with this, Michael?
>>
>> Regardless of the journey, what are you hoping to achieve in the end?
>>
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>> Thanks,
>> Alexander
>>
>> Sent from my Google Pixel 7 Pro
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 9, 2024, 09:09 Michael via PLUG-discuss <
>> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>>
>>> and I reinstalled my system and got sudo and my alias to work. ai told
>>> me to change the permissions of sudo but..... wait I could create an
>>> instance of sudo closer up the path and change it's permissions. that
>>> should work.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 9, 2024 at 12:05 PM Michael <bmi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm not antisystemd but that is how ai told me to do it
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jul 9, 2024 at 10:28 AM Ryan Petris <r...@petris.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I don't have an answer for you on the sudo bit, but I saw this in your
>>>>> history:
>>>>>
>>>>>     5  nano ~/set_time_after_internet.sh
>>>>>     6  chmod +x ~/set_time_after_internet.sh
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Not sure if you're anti-systemd or not, but if you use
>>>>> systemd-networkd (or even NetworkManager) along with systemd-timesyncd,
>>>>> this is exactly what happens, the time is set after you get an internet
>>>>> connection.
>>>>>
>>>>> At least on Arch, enabling systemd-networkd or NetworkManager will
>>>>> result in the services systemd-networkd-wait-online or
>>>>> NetworkManager-wait-online being enabled, which will complete once you 
>>>>> have
>>>>> an internet connection; systemd-timesyncd will run after these services 
>>>>> and
>>>>> thus the time will be set.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yet another thing you don't have to worry about if you just embrace
>>>>> systemd...
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Jul 9, 2024, at 6:23 AM, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> here is my history so you can see what chatgpt directed me to do:
>>>>> bmike1@bmike1-desktop:~$ history
>>>>>     1  xkill
>>>>>     2  ls /home
>>>>>     3  ls /home/bmike1/b
>>>>>     4  ls /home/bmike1/
>>>>>     5  nano ~/set_time_after_internet.sh
>>>>>     6  chmod +x ~/set_time_after_internet.sh
>>>>>     7  crontab -e
>>>>>     8  alias aliasforsudo to sudo
>>>>>     9  nano ~/.bashrc
>>>>>    10  source ~/.bashrc
>>>>>    11  aliasforsudo ls /root
>>>>>    12  nano ~/.bashrc
>>>>>    13  source ~/.bashrc
>>>>>    14  aliasforsudo ls /root
>>>>>    15  source ~/.bashrc
>>>>>    16  aliasforsudo ls /root
>>>>>    17  sudo visudo
>>>>>    18  nano ~/set_time_after_internet.sh
>>>>>    19  chmod +x ~/set_time_after_internet.sh
>>>>>    20  crontab -e
>>>>>    21  aliasforsudo ls /root
>>>>>    22  SUDO
>>>>>    23  sudo
>>>>>    24  sudo cp /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/sudo.bak
>>>>>    25  sudo tee /usr/bin/sudo <<EOF
>>>>>    26  #!/bin/bash
>>>>>    27  echo "The sudo command has been disabled."
>>>>>    28  EOF
>>>>>    29  sudo mv /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/sudo.bak
>>>>>    30  echo -e '#!/bin/bash\necho "The sudo command has been
>>>>> disabled."' | sudo tee /usr/bin/sudo
>>>>>    31  aliasforsudo ls
>>>>>    32  sudo ls
>>>>>    33  # Create the dummy sudo script
>>>>>    34  echo -e '#!/bin/bash\necho "The sudo command has been
>>>>> disabled."' | sudo tee /usr/bin/sudo
>>>>>    35  which sudo
>>>>>    36  sudo
>>>>>    37  su
>>>>>    38  aliasforsudo
>>>>>    39  aliasforsudo
>>>>>    40  aliasforsudo
>>>>>    41  sudo
>>>>>    42  isud
>>>>>    43  visudo
>>>>>    44  aliasforsudo visudo
>>>>>    45  aliasforsudo
>>>>>    46  aliasforsudo ls
>>>>>    47  sudo ls
>>>>>    48  aliasforsudo ls
>>>>>    49  sudo ls
>>>>>    50  echo -e '#!/bin/bash\necho "The sudo command has been
>>>>> disabled."' | sudo tee /usr/bin/sudo
>>>>>    51  aliasforsudo mv /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/sudo.old
>>>>>    52  echo -e '#!/bin/bash\necho "The sudo command has been
>>>>> disabled."' | aliasforsudo tee /usr/bin/sudo
>>>>>    53  aliasforsudo bash -c 'cat > /usr/bin/sudo <<EOF
>>>>>    54  #!/bin/bash
>>>>>    55  echo "The sudo command has been disabled."
>>>>>    56  EOF'
>>>>>    57  echo -e '#!/bin/bash\necho "The sudo command has been
>>>>> disabled."' > sudo
>>>>>    58  aliasforsudo mv sudo /usr/bin/sudo
>>>>>    59  aliasforsudo ls
>>>>>    60  su
>>>>>    61  aliasforsudo ls
>>>>>    62  sudo ls
>>>>>    63  aliasforsudo passwd root
>>>>>    64  su
>>>>>    65  aliasforsudo sudo
>>>>>    66  aliasforsudo ls
>>>>>    67  sudo ls
>>>>>    68  aliasforsudo visudo
>>>>>    69  history
>>>>> bmike1@bmike1-desktop:~$
>>>>> switced user because sudo disabled
>>>>> root@bmike1-desktop:/home/bmike1# history
>>>>>     1  mount -oremount,rw /
>>>>>     2  cp /usr/bin/sudo.bak /usr/bin/sudo
>>>>>     3  chmod 4755 /usr/bin/sudo
>>>>>     4  visudo
>>>>>     5  mount -o remount,rw /
>>>>>     6  cp /usr/bin/sudo.bak /usr/bin/sudo
>>>>>     7  chmod 4755 /usr/bin/sudo
>>>>>     8  su cmike1
>>>>>     9  su bmike1
>>>>>    10  sudo rm /usr/local/bin/sudo
>>>>>    11  sudo rm /usr/local/bin/sudo_custom
>>>>>    12  rm /usr/local/bin/sudo_custom
>>>>>    13  nano ~/.bashrc
>>>>>    14  which sudo
>>>>>    15  rm /usr/local/bin/sudo
>>>>>    16  which sudo
>>>>>    17  sudo ls
>>>>>    18  rm /usr/local/bin/sudo
>>>>>    19  which sudo
>>>>>    20  ls -l /usr/bin/sudo
>>>>>    21  nano ~/.bashrc
>>>>>    22  rm /usr/local/bin/sudo
>>>>>    23  which sudo
>>>>>    24  apt update
>>>>>    25  apt install --reinstall sudo
>>>>>    26  sudo ls
>>>>>    27  apt update
>>>>>    28  apt install --reinstall sudo
>>>>>    29  which sudo
>>>>>    30  sudo ls
>>>>>    31  rm /usr/local/bin/sudo 2>/dev/null
>>>>>    32  ls -l /usr/bin/sudo
>>>>>    33  sudo ls
>>>>>    34  visudo
>>>>>    35  echo $PATH
>>>>>    36  unalias sudo 2>/dev/null
>>>>>    37  sudo
>>>>>    38  chmod 4755 /usr/bin/sudo
>>>>>    39  sudo
>>>>>    40  echo "alias god='sudo'" >> ~/.bashrc
>>>>>    41  source ~/.bashrc
>>>>>    42  aliasforsudo ls
>>>>>    43  tail -f /var/log/syslog
>>>>>    44  apt --fix-broken install
>>>>>    45  fg
>>>>>    46  history
>>>>> root@bmike1-desktop:/home/bmike1# su bmike1
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Jul 9, 2024 at 7:46 AM Michael <bmi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> chatgpt is being stupid. A couple of days ago it showed me how to
>>>>> create an alias for sudo and then disable sudo while letting the alias
>>>>> work. Well, I had a power fluctuation and that caused my box to to start
>>>>> booting into busybox. So I reinstalled my system and now chatgpt doesn't
>>>>> know how to disable sudo while allowing it's alias to work. So I turn to
>>>>> you.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>
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