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sudo stands for Super User Do. It allows users to run programs with the security privileges of another user (if configured access permissions allow it), by default the superuser and is therefore prefixed before commands when full access to the operating system is required.
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Changing hostname breaks several things (CM5 / Bookworm)
Per the title, I have a CM5 running standard Bookworm 12, configured as a kiosk display which has no desktop but directly loads Firefox at boot.
However, on changing the unit's hostname it then fails ...
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How to clear the display at startup
I am using RPI 3B+ Bullseye Lite without X as a video player contolled over SSH. I had preferred to start with a blank screen.
Writing the following in /etc/rc.local
sudo sh -c "TERM=linux ...
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apt-add repository not working when software-properties-common is installed
I am trying to install an app through a PPA. But when I add the PPA this does not work even having software-properties-common installed.
Here is the problem below.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:...
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Raspberry pi OS safety online on raspberry pi 5 8GB
I installed the Raspberry Pi OS with Raspberry Pi Imager on my rasp 5 8gb and was surprised that sudo doesn't require entering password by default, the OS will also boot into desktop without any user ...
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Cannot run PulseAudio as root (sudo)
I have developed a console application in .net 6 which uses a library that needs direct access to the gpio-pins of the Pi.
The Pi is running the latest Pi OS Lite x64.
Edit: This is the library ...
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sudo ./install.sh cant run the script [SOLVED] [closed]
Using RPi 4 model B Rev 1.4, Raspberry Pi OS.
I'm trying to install MCC's DAQ hats.
I have the followed all the instructions but when I try to run,
sudo ./install.sh
I get the following,
sudo: ./...
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Reenabling Raspberry Pi passwordless sudo
I am running Bullseye with non "pi" account and wanted to require my user to always type in a sudo password. I used sudo visudo -f /etc/sudoers.d/010_pi-nopasswd and changed
myaccount ALL=(...
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Boot order breaking due to automount (running into emergency mode)
I have a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster).
The Pi is running on a microSD-Card with a read-only boot partition and activated overlay-filesystem (both is currently deactivated for ...
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Errors Changing /boot/config.txt externally
I was overclocking my pi, and I went a little overkill, so now it wont boot.
Im trying to change config.txt back to its previous state externally, but I don't have the permissions to do it. I tried ...
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Sudo still works despite removing my user from group
I just installed the April 4th 2022 edition of Rasberry Pi OS and added a root password in addition to my user password. I also did..
deluser <userme> sudo
I tested my new security adjustment ...
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Trying to kill all processes, but new processes keep spawning
I'm trying to rename the default pi username after getting a new raspberry pi 4. I am completely new to Linux, so my knowledge of the matter is small. From what I've discovered, one way to rename pi ...
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Can I access the keyboard in a virtual environment that was not created with sudo?
I have a script which uses the arrows on the keyboard to provide user input.
The script required the keyboard package to be installed with pip install keyboard.
The script works fine outside the ...
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Any way to get sudo privleges without opening a command line in raspian? [closed]
Right now to get python scripts to run with user privleges in thonny with typing in this command from the command line:
sudo thonny
I can't close the command window without it closing thonny also
Is ...
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Configure RasPi 4 for headless operation [closed]
I'm trying to run a Pi 4 headless as I don't have the microusb cord available.
In /boot, I ran touch ssh then created wpa_supplicant.conf and with the modified contents:
country=US
ctrl_interface=DIR=/...
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GUI password prompt replacement for gksu won't work via SSH
Since gksu has been deprecated, I'm using the following script which emulates it using pkexec:
#!/bin/bash
PKEXEC_USER="root"
while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; do
key="$1"
case $key in
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