Questions tagged [root]
For questions pertaining to `root` access.
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I cannot login to my raspberry after uninstalling zsh
Raspberry is running fine, but I cannot login via ssh or directly on the device. Problem: I executed following command: sudo apt remove --purge zsh Yes I know I am a moron. I know I have to access /...
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Attempted to ssh as root after running into Denied error, but couldn't login
I'm running a Plex server on my RPi3 with Raspberry OS Lite. I've started running into an error when uploading files that I cannot set permissions/timestamp, error 3 Denied. I've tried a few things, ...
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Why root user has different library version than simple user? [closed]
I was trying to build one project with cmake but turned out that root doesn't have it (admin user had it). After installing it on root they have now different versions. I thought that root has only ...
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Surely I can run sox with alsa without pulseaudio
Why would I want to do that? because pulseaudio isn't needed (presumably) and pulseaudio does not want to run as root. In theory I should be able to run pulseaudio --system to fix the problem, but I ...
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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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Why usb with root filesystem is not mounting on boot bootcode.bin not working
Hi I am making this thread because someone pointed that my previous was not specific enough. I am trying to move my root filesystem to external usb on my raspberry zero v1.3. I have additional ...
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WS281x library cannot access /dev/mem without root
I get this error from the rpi_ws281x library when trying to run as user pi (this is a java wrapper around the library): 16:43:59.060 [main] INFO com.github.mbelling.ws281x.Ws281xLedStrip - LEDs count:...
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User getting removed from group after reboot
I am running Ubuntu Server 20.04.02 LTS in my RPi 4b. I ran into the problem that I couldn't access the GPIO without sudo/root with my python scripts so I changed the /dev/gpiomem group ownership to ...
