[clug] Blank CD-R Disc

Bryan Kilgallin kilgallin at iinet.net.au
Sun Sep 2 09:10:04 UTC 2018


Thanks, George:

> I don't always use sudo myself.   When my user account is not a
> member of sudoers, then I usually know the root password, and then in
> a terminal window I  use su, entering the root password.  Then once
> I have been root, I can run commands as root, for example adding my
> account to a group.

I can't do anything with sudo or su! Both give error messages.

> Do you know the root password?  Are you able to become root into a
> terminal window, via su?

I'm going to reboot into recovery mode. Then, I am reading, I need to 
remount the filesystem with write permissions. With the aim of editing 
the /etc/group file.
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