Recompile vbox kernel
I am an Ubuntu user setting an old PIII up for a friend and have installed Mepis 8.0.15. When I type ¨sudo su" and give it the password it tells me I"m not authorized. I an not seem to find the documentation to solve this and he wants windoze on vbox.
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Use "sudo command" to gain administrative privileges for running that single command. To do that, you have to re-enter your own password. Use "su" to start a new shell under a new username, typically root. In that case, you have to enter the root password. Using your combination would mean you first acquire root privileges for yourself temporarily, and use these elevated privileges to issue the "su" command. As far as I can tell, you should be prompted for a password twice - first for your own (by sudo), and then root's (by su). One of these two should be sufficient. [X] Doc CPU |
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Thanks for the assist and here's hoping you have theanswer for this issue. |
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Sometimes I opened a root console from the GUI menu (that's done with gksu) and was really root then. Now that I'm thinking about it, it's funny that this worked with my regular user password, not root's. Mint behaves exactly the same, by the way, which is not all that surprising. After all, Mint is a sibling of Ubuntu. Quote:
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I might be to old to turn a computer on at 67 but at least I haven been stupid enough to call you a liar. I've been playing at this since the mid-seventies and I only install Mepis on units so old that Ubuntu will not go on them. You need to read what I said, in it's context and learn the lesson I learned as a non-com lifer in the Army, getting arrogant just pisses people off. I fixed the issue without your input. |
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