Re: arm people distributing images with user 1000 already allocated, please stop that

2016-12-02 Thread emetib
> > [use sudo] > > > > > The last time I tried that, some years ago, it demanded the old > > > passwd first. I think that was about Red Hat 7.1's day. I'd been > > > using it since 1998 and 5.0. > > > > > > > i hope that this helps some for future reference. > > > > > > If no pw is needed, great. >

Re: arm people distributing images with user 1000 already allocated, please stop that

2016-12-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 02 December 2016 06:16:31 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 06:06:34PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 01 December 2016 15:30:12 emetib wrote: > > [use sudo] > > > The last time I tried that, some years ago, it demanded the old > > passwd first. I think that wa

Re: arm people distributing images with user 1000 already allocated, please stop that

2016-12-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 02 December 2016 06:14:34 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > From what I recall, raspbian's default user is in the sudoers file by > default too. Of course it is, Jonathon, but I am the user that counts, and adding me to the sudoers and the sudo group still does not get me rights to run any gr

Re: arm people distributing images with user 1000 already allocated, please stop that

2016-12-02 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 06:06:34PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 01 December 2016 15:30:12 emetib wrote: [use sudo] > The last time I tried that, some years ago, it demanded the old passwd > first. I think that was about Red Hat 7.1's day. I'd been using it since > 1998 and 5.0. > > >

Re: arm people distributing images with user 1000 already allocated, please stop that

2016-12-02 Thread Jonathan Dowland
From what I recall, raspbian's default user is in the sudoers file by default too. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: arm people distributing images with user 1000 already allocated, please stop that

2016-12-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 01 December 2016 15:30:12 emetib wrote: > gene i can understand your pain. one of the reasons that i don't > necessarily like sudo systems. > > one of the first things that i do when i have a sudo system, ubuntu, > lmde, raspbian, is to 'sudo su' and then 'passwd' to actually set a >

Re: arm people distributing images with user 1000 already allocated, please stop that

2016-12-01 Thread emetib
gene i can understand your pain. one of the reasons that i don't necessarily like sudo systems. one of the first things that i do when i have a sudo system, ubuntu, lmde, raspbian, is to 'sudo su' and then 'passwd' to actually set a root password. i have found that this has remedied the situat

Re: arm people distributing images with user 1000 already allocated, please stop that

2016-12-01 Thread Joe
On Thu, 1 Dec 2016 14:17:52 -0500 Gene Heskett wrote: > Only then could I load up the software I needed to do the job I > bought 3 of these SBC's to do. Not even the first user can "sudo apt > install" anything that is not in the supplied repo list. So even he > cannot actually put a raspberry

Re: arm people distributing images with user 1000 already allocated, please stop that

2016-12-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 01 December 2016 12:58:59 Alexandre GRIVEAUX wrote: > Le 01/12/2016 à 18:45, Gene Heskett a écrit : > > Greetings; > > Hello, > > > The arm folks, like unbuntu and raspian, are distribution for > > installation usually on an micro-sd card, install images with the > > first user pre-con

Re: arm people distributing images with user 1000 already allocated, please stop that

2016-12-01 Thread Alexandre GRIVEAUX
Le 01/12/2016 à 18:45, Gene Heskett a écrit : > Greetings; Hello, > > The arm folks, like unbuntu and raspian, are distribution for > installation usually on an micro-sd card, install images with the first > user pre-configured. He is in the sudoers file, but the ability to > install other soft

arm people distributing images with user 1000 already allocated, please stop that

2016-12-01 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; The arm folks, like unbuntu and raspian, are distribution for installation usually on an micro-sd card, install images with the first user pre-configured. He is in the sudoers file, but the ability to install other software to actually DO something is restricted to a root pw only,

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2016-03-18 Thread shibinsyam23
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re: wvdial hangs off to pppd..... How to stop that??

2001-01-07 Thread Kenneth F. Ryder III
I had similar problems with that 8bit problem with my deb 2.1 with diald... I fixed it with /ppp/options, the setting crtscts, or xonxoff I believe.. try settings these on/off see what it gives you... I'm sorry I cant remember more about it. (if I remember correctly its like local echo, if you h

re: wvdial hangs off to pppd..... How to stop that??

2001-01-07 Thread DTi4565459
I've got my PCMCIA modem dialing now. In DOS,with the old win31 terminal program, I can dial up my university ISP, and connect to a login prompt. Under Linux, when I dial in with wvdial, the login prompt screen flashes by without giving me time to enter text. The pppd takes over and starts dia

stop that

1998-07-10 Thread Paul Reavis
Please stop sending unsubscribe requests to debian-user. And _PLEASE_ stop using the reply feature so that I get a huge, single entry digest every time you do that. I found something like 8 of them in my mailbox this morning. As it says at the bottom of every single digest and mailing from debian-