I think I lost the thread of this discussion somewhere along the way. What is your desired outcome with this, Michael? Regardless of the journey, what are you hoping to achieve in the end? -- Thanks, Alexander Sent from my Google Pixel 7 Pro On Tue, Jul 9, 2024, 09:09 Michael via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > and I reinstalled my system and got sudo and my alias to work. ai told me > to change the permissions of sudo but..... wait I could create an instance > of sudo closer up the path and change it's permissions. that should work. > > On Tue, Jul 9, 2024 at 12:05 PM Michael wrote: > >> I'm not antisystemd but that is how ai told me to do it >> >> >> On Tue, Jul 9, 2024 at 10:28 AM Ryan Petris wrote: >> >>> I don't have an answer for you on the sudo bit, but I saw this in your >>> history: >>> >>> 5 nano ~/set_time_after_internet.sh >>> 6 chmod +x ~/set_time_after_internet.sh >>> >>> >>> Not sure if you're anti-systemd or not, but if you use systemd-networkd >>> (or even NetworkManager) along with systemd-timesyncd, this is exactly what >>> happens, the time is set after you get an internet connection. >>> >>> At least on Arch, enabling systemd-networkd or NetworkManager will >>> result in the services systemd-networkd-wait-online or >>> NetworkManager-wait-online being enabled, which will complete once you have >>> an internet connection; systemd-timesyncd will run after these services and >>> thus the time will be set. >>> >>> Yet another thing you don't have to worry about if you just embrace >>> systemd... >>> >>> On Tue, Jul 9, 2024, at 6:23 AM, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote: >>> >>> 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 <>> 26 #!/bin/bash >>> 27 echo "The sudo command has been disabled." >>> 28 EOF >>> 29 sudo mv /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/sudo.bak >>> 30 echo -e '#!/bin/bash\necho "The sudo command has been disabled."' >>> | sudo tee /usr/bin/sudo >>> 31 aliasforsudo ls >>> 32 sudo ls >>> 33 # Create the dummy sudo script >>> 34 echo -e '#!/bin/bash\necho "The sudo command has been disabled."' >>> | sudo tee /usr/bin/sudo >>> 35 which sudo >>> 36 sudo >>> 37 su >>> 38 aliasforsudo >>> 39 aliasforsudo >>> 40 aliasforsudo >>> 41 sudo >>> 42 isud >>> 43 visudo >>> 44 aliasforsudo visudo >>> 45 aliasforsudo >>> 46 aliasforsudo ls >>> 47 sudo ls >>> 48 aliasforsudo ls >>> 49 sudo ls >>> 50 echo -e '#!/bin/bash\necho "The sudo command has been disabled."' >>> | sudo tee /usr/bin/sudo >>> 51 aliasforsudo mv /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/sudo.old >>> 52 echo -e '#!/bin/bash\necho "The sudo command has been disabled."' >>> | aliasforsudo tee /usr/bin/sudo >>> 53 aliasforsudo bash -c 'cat > /usr/bin/sudo <>> 54 #!/bin/bash >>> 55 echo "The sudo command has been disabled." >>> 56 EOF' >>> 57 echo -e '#!/bin/bash\necho "The sudo command has been disabled."' >>> > 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~(-: >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >