here is my history so you can see what chatgpt directed me to do: bmike1@bmike1-desktop:~$ history 1 xkill 2 ls /home 3 ls /home/bmike1/b 4 ls /home/bmike1/ 5 nano ~/set_time_after_internet.sh 6 chmod +x ~/set_time_after_internet.sh 7 crontab -e 8 alias aliasforsudo to sudo 9 nano ~/.bashrc 10 source ~/.bashrc 11 aliasforsudo ls /root 12 nano ~/.bashrc 13 source ~/.bashrc 14 aliasforsudo ls /root 15 source ~/.bashrc 16 aliasforsudo ls /root 17 sudo visudo 18 nano ~/set_time_after_internet.sh 19 chmod +x ~/set_time_after_internet.sh 20 crontab -e 21 aliasforsudo ls /root 22 SUDO 23 sudo 24 sudo cp /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/sudo.bak 25 sudo tee /usr/bin/sudo < /usr/bin/sudo < sudo 58 aliasforsudo mv sudo /usr/bin/sudo 59 aliasforsudo ls 60 su 61 aliasforsudo ls 62 sudo ls 63 aliasforsudo passwd root 64 su 65 aliasforsudo sudo 66 aliasforsudo ls 67 sudo ls 68 aliasforsudo visudo 69 history bmike1@bmike1-desktop:~$ switced user because sudo disabled root@bmike1-desktop:/home/bmike1# history 1 mount -oremount,rw / 2 cp /usr/bin/sudo.bak /usr/bin/sudo 3 chmod 4755 /usr/bin/sudo 4 visudo 5 mount -o remount,rw / 6 cp /usr/bin/sudo.bak /usr/bin/sudo 7 chmod 4755 /usr/bin/sudo 8 su cmike1 9 su bmike1 10 sudo rm /usr/local/bin/sudo 11 sudo rm /usr/local/bin/sudo_custom 12 rm /usr/local/bin/sudo_custom 13 nano ~/.bashrc 14 which sudo 15 rm /usr/local/bin/sudo 16 which sudo 17 sudo ls 18 rm /usr/local/bin/sudo 19 which sudo 20 ls -l /usr/bin/sudo 21 nano ~/.bashrc 22 rm /usr/local/bin/sudo 23 which sudo 24 apt update 25 apt install --reinstall sudo 26 sudo ls 27 apt update 28 apt install --reinstall sudo 29 which sudo 30 sudo ls 31 rm /usr/local/bin/sudo 2>/dev/null 32 ls -l /usr/bin/sudo 33 sudo ls 34 visudo 35 echo $PATH 36 unalias sudo 2>/dev/null 37 sudo 38 chmod 4755 /usr/bin/sudo 39 sudo 40 echo "alias god='sudo'" >> ~/.bashrc 41 source ~/.bashrc 42 aliasforsudo ls 43 tail -f /var/log/syslog 44 apt --fix-broken install 45 fg 46 history root@bmike1-desktop:/home/bmike1# su bmike1 On Tue, Jul 9, 2024 at 7:46 AM Michael wrote: > chatgpt is being stupid. A couple of days ago it showed me how to create > an alias for sudo and then disable sudo while letting the alias work. Well, > I had a power fluctuation and that caused my box to to start booting into > busybox. So I reinstalled my system and now chatgpt doesn't know how to > disable sudo while allowing it's alias to work. So I turn to you. > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: