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I just installed debian and i have many problems (feddit.rocks)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My user account doesnt have sudo despite being in sudoers. I cant run new commands i have to execute the binary. Grub takes very long to load with "welcome to grub" message. I just wanted a stable distro as arch broke and currupted my external ssd

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe they mean lacking wheel groups? Or not knowing how to invoke sudo with a specific user?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Debian's got a sudo group, not a wheel group.

EDIT: Oh, I see what you mean. Arch might use the wheel group and Debian the sudo group, and if he just copied his Arch sudoers file over his Debian one, it would reference the wheel group and wouldn't work.

googles

Yeah, Arch has wheel.

https://linuxopsys.com/topics/add-user-to-sudoers-in-arch-linux

EDIT2: I bet he tried to add his user account explicitly to /etc/sudoers rather than just adding the account to the sudo group and just got the syntax wrong in one way or another, as the syntax of sudoers isn't terribly intuitive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In english you can use "they" if you dont know the persons pronouns ;D also pretty sure OP is female

But valid point, Debian is weird

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In english you can use “they” if you dont know the persons pronouns

You can, but you can also use "he", as English has a masculine generic.

But valid point, Debian is weird

I think that most Linux distros are based on Debian these days, as Fedora, the other major "parent" distro, seems not to be doing super-well, so I'd guess that most distros are probably using the sudo group.

https://distrowatch.com/images/other/distro-family-tree.png

Slackware looks not very alive these days, so I don't think that there's much going on with the child distros there any more.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Slackware is still very much alive, actively maintained, and used by dozens all over the world!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I keep reading the install manual then I have 3 beers and a nap.