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Does following `man sudo root` permenantly blocks your sudo?
I needed to enable the root account for whatever reason and being offline I had no better advice than this manual man sudo root
"This is not recommended!
To enable the root account (i.e. set ...
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How can i recover sudo permission?
I am new to Ubuntu.
I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 on a fujitsu amilo 1536 notebook, and it works just fine.
To extract a tar archive I need root privileges but I can't get them. I can't use sudo ...
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sudo su command not working
Previous happenings here: Ubuntu is booting into terminal instead of GUI Interface
For some reason when I boot my computer up, instead of automatically entering into my normal interface, I have to ...
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Sudo Non-Password access to /sys/power/state
On my computer, pm-hibernate appears to be broken, however using the command echo disk > /sys/power/state appears to work perfectly. Now I just need regular user access to it, using sudo. How do I ...
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Why few commands (eg: fdisk -l) do not inform user “you do not have privilege”?
Few commands that need to do sudo remind you that "You do not have the privilege" or "Are you root?" etc.
while a few commands do not give such message. For example, if you do fdisk -l instead of ...
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Why the need for sudo when I have only one account on machine? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why is it bad to run as root?
I am bit confused about the need for sudo when I have a single user account set up on my machine. At install time I tried to call the name ...
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no sudo permissions to /etc/hostname
When I try to edit my /etc/hostname file, using sudo nano /etc/hostname (or any other editor) I get the following:
Error writing /etc/hostname: Permission denied
I then tried:
sudo chmod u+w ...
