On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 6:03 AM Elio Fabri <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Thenk you both. Your suggestions helped me to solve the issue.
> First, reading the link by Nico (and before him by Ron Tapia privately)
> recalled me what passwd command does.
> Then jdow's post prompted use of sudo.
> Actually I had already tried it and it worked.
>
> It was not obvious, haowever, since sudo's allowed actions depend on the
> security policy and I didn't remember anything about that.
> Once read 'man sudo' I checked sudoers file and found I had configured
> %elio    ALL=(ALL)    NOPASSWD: ALL
> (elio is my account's name).
>
> All that I had forgotten, of course :)
> Bye

Heh. I thought that if you had sudo, you wouldn't need the root
password. While the sudo security policies *can* be very
sophisticated, very few people use the subtler permissions. They
really tend to use all or nothing, and if you have sudo you have full
root access. I've actually urged and helped set up environments to use
more subtle configurations, and been overruled for the desire to keep
it simple.