[kwlug-disc] Debian problem

[Mark Steffen]

sudo bash and then type in your user password?  This has always worked 
for me with Debian.

FWIW, I agree, all new VMs I'm making are Debian, getting tired of the 
corporate open source rugpulls.

On 2024-05-06 8:49 a.m., CrankyOldBugger wrote:
> So I'm getting a bit tired of the way Ubuntu is leading us down the 
> garden path with their various requirements, like Snap, etc.
>
> So I thought I'd try Debian.  I made a virtual machine, installed the 
> latest version "Bookworm", and everything installed fine.
>
> But..  I can log in as myself, but I'm not in the sudoers file, so I 
> can't elevate to root.  There was no option (that I could see) in the 
> installation to make myself a sudo group user.
>
> So I tried login as root, and sure enough, root can't login (neither 
> from the GUI login, or via SSH).  So I'm in a Catch-22, where I can't 
> become root, I can't login as root, but I need to be root to fix those 
> two things...
>
> Are there any Debian guys out there who know how to get around this?
>
>
>
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